Following the Russian annexation of Crimea earlier this year, the three McDonald’s outlets in the erstwhile Ukrainian peninsula were shuttered. At least one of the stores was taken over by RusBurger, the nationalist Russian hamburger chain, which boasts Czar cheeseburgers instead of Big Macs and pear lemonade instead of Coca-Cola. In the ensuing months, as tensions have flared between the United States and Russia over the (still) ongoing conflict in Ukraine, the Golden Arches have become a casualty in the battle. The oldest McDonald’s in Russia, which for decades sat on Pushkin Square in Moscow, was among the four stores …read more
Source: The Atlantic
