Absent friends?

How to spoil a report from the beginning? By starting with some statistics... However, I will risk doing so this time, because they may put to bed some of the unease that this year’s MIPIM “seems slightly smaller somehow”, “there’s more space in the corridors” and the general sense that “there’s something missing”. However, the numbers speak for themselves – 22,000 guests representing 93 countries is a number comparable to previous years. However, there was a certain sense of something lacking – namely, the guests from Russia, who stood out in terms of the scale of their presence in previous years, but were considerably less visible this year. However, participants from Turkey tried their best to replace them, displaying a particularly impressive scale model of Istanbul – and unlike the much touted enlarged scale model of London, it delighted everyone with its detail and richness of colours. Guests from the land of