KIEV, Feb. 27 ??“ IKEA Group, a fast growing low-price Swedish furniture company, postponed for almost a year opening of a $300 mln shopping and entertainment complex in Kiev due to a dispute with local authorities.

The company planned to open the complex in 2006, but the dispute over architectural design had put the project on hold, Lennart Dahlgren, the general manager of IKEA Russia-Ukraine, said.