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“We went to IKEA for the first time when our daughter was only several months old,” said Julia Trutneva, 27, a stay-at-home mom who also works part-time as an interpreter. On Saturday evening, Julia and her husband Alexander, a 31-year-old computer programmer, were shopping in IKEA-Tyoply Stan (the second IKEA store in Moscow, which opened in December 2001). They were looking for some bookshelves and a new bed for their little girl. Their five-year-old daughter, Polina, was sitting in a spacious shopping cart, playing with a curiously authentic-looking stuffed rat she had picked up at the store’s children’s section.
“We don’t mind spending the whole day here,” Trutneva said, adding that almost half of the furniture in her two-bedroom apartment was bought at IKEA. “You shop, then stop at the restaurant to have lunch. The food is cheap and fairly healthy – my daughter loves their meatballs and broccoli. It’s really nice here. There’s a non-smoking area, a place to change diapers, a microwave to heat up the baby food and a large TV for kids to watch cartoons while their parents finish eating. It’s one of the safest places in Moscow to bring your child,” she said. “We come here once every few months.”
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