Not only that, but it creates jobs, helps the economy by supporting the major logging industry in Russia (a sustainable industry if done right) and improves the lifestyles of normal Russians, among other...
As for improving the lifestyles, you'll soon realise that cheap chinese wares don't improve the lifestyles that much. Cheap, but ugly and non-durable.
Although my experience is 5 years old, I don't think things have changed so much that Ikea isn't paying bribes.
Especially global corporations are known for doing it in less economically developed countries to own them as they wish. Example is South America: there were some wars, even, growing out of conflict between two American oil corporations.
Now you can say that there's good bribe and bad bribe (first for doing legal things, second for questionable), but it's bribery in either case.