Russia’s IKEA Copycat Disappoints Russians - and Quality of Meatballs bad

MOSCOW — With its blue-and-yellow branding and stuffed sharks adorning the entrance, it’s easy to recognize what this small store in a shopping mall located in southwest Moscow is aiming for. Гуд Лакк (“Good Luck” in Cyrillic letters), which opened earlier this month, is in many ways a carbon copy of IKEA, the Swedish furniture giant which pulled out of Russia last year following the outbreak of conflict in Ukraine.