Moscow Fake Capital of the World?

This LA Times article describes a Moscow travel agency that will, for a moderate fee, give you a fake vacation.

"If the customer is an errant husband who wants his wife to believe he's on a fishing trip, Persey offers not just photos of him on the river, but a cellphone with a distant number, a lodge that if anyone calls will swear the husband is checked in but not available, and a few dead fish on ice."

One Siberian gas station proprietor even paid $2000 for the company to help him convince his friends that he visited the moon.

The article also discusses Russia's thriving counterfeit industry, an industry accounting for 50% of all goods sold in Russia, according to officials.