Russian officials are investigating more than 200 McDonald’s restaurants—nearly half of the fast-food chain’s locations in the country—in what many analysts see as retaliation against Western-backed sanctions.
The probes into the chain’s hygiene and finance practices by the Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian government’s consumer rights surveillance group, began in August and have since resulted in the temporary closure of nine locations, include one McDonald’s in Sochi, the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics, and several restaurants in Moscow, according to a translation of a statement on the McDonald’s Russian website published Saturday.
Analysts believed the move is part of a tit-for-tat response to …read more
Source: Newsweek
