Russia’s Dysfunctional Funeral Business Gets A Makeover

The Economist: Business, The Economist
Tue, 12/19/2017 - 9:50am

Stiffer competition is coming THE calls began shortly after Yulia’s grandmother died. The undertaker offered help arranging the funeral, for 47,000 roubles ($800) in cash. She then travelled to Moscow’s Khovanskoe Cemetery, where she was offered a discount on a gravesite—150,000 roubles off—if she could bring cash within three hours and sign a receipt saying she had paid half that amount.

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