In Russia, they are going to use the labor of prisoners in furniture factories in order to replace the goods of IKEA that left the Russian Federation on the market. Russian media write about it.

“Colonies may well take the place of IKEA. If we compare furniture, we have better quality and lower prices.. We are not businessmen,” says Ivan Sharkov, head of the department for labor adaptation of convicts of the Main Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Sverdlovsk Region..

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Thus, the Belarusian company Swed House will open the first store with analogues of IKEA products in Moscow. According to the representative of the company in Russia, Mammadali Kasymov, the store will present goods produced in factories in China, cooperating with IKEA..

And textiles are going to be produced in Russian Ivanovo, where they allegedly produced goods for IKEA for many years..

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At the same time, it is not specified how legal it is to copy the design of the Swedish brand..

As you know, IKEA did not have a factory in Ivanovo, Russia.. The former four factories of the Swedish company in the Russian Federation are located: in Esipovo (Moscow region), Tikhvin (Leningrad region), Veliky Novgorod (Novgorod region) and the town. Krasnaya Polyana (Kirov region).

Last March, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, IKEA closed 17 of its stores in the country and stopped production at local factories.. In June, the company decided to leave Russia completely and sell all four factories in the country.. Later, IKEA fired 10,000 remaining Russian employees..

We also recall that last summer, Russian media reported that correctional colonies in Russia signed contracts for the manufacture of furniture by prisoners. 30 colonies from seven regions of Russia offer their services.

However, since then, the colonies in the Russian Federation have been significantly emptied.. As you know, Russian prisoners are actively sent to the front in Ukraine. This February, the recruiters of PMC Wagner began to go around the colonies in a new circle, from where they had already taken convicts.