Mikhail Saltin could buy the office supplies for his small Moscow legal firm from a local shop, but he says he can save up to two-thirds of the cost by ordering online from China.
“It’s easy and you don’t even have to wait that long any more, the post office tracks it,” Mr Saltin said of Alibaba’s AliExpress site. “I even bought a Lenin badge just like Brezhnev had. The Chinese can do anything!”
Customers like Mr Saltin, who said he spends an average of Rbs20,000 ($316) a month on AliExpress, are driving a huge surge in cross-border trade between Russia and China. Last year, 90 per cent of the 290m parcels sent to Russia came from China, according to the Gaidar Institute think-tank.
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