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McDonald’s: How the fast-food symbol of America has fallen prey to politics in Russia

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McDonald’s: How the fast-food symbol of America has fallen prey to politics in Russia

July 8, 2016 | indiafood forum | FOOD SERVICE

The Pushkin Square restaurant – a symbol of the thawing of the Cold War when it became the first McDonald’s in the Soviet Union, in 1990 – was one of four in Moscow that the Russian government ordered closed Wednesday. The official reason given by Rospotrebnadzor, the country’s consumer protection agency, was “numerous violations of the sanitary code.”…READ MORE