McDonald's in Russia
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From 1990 to 2022, the American fast food chain McDonald's operated and franchised McDonald's restaurants in Russia.
The first Russian McDonald's on Pushkin Square, Moscow (2013)
The first Russian McDonald's on Moscow's Pushkin Square, pictured in 1991
Interior of McDonald's Pushkin Square, pictured in 2013
Interior of McDonald's Pushkin Square re-designed by Landini Associates to celebrate 30 years of McDonald's in Russia, pictured in 2020
On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the existing war between the two countries that began when Ru
McDonald's in Russia
…LLC) (Russian: ООО «Макдоналдс») and CJSC Moscow-McDonald's (Russian: ЗАО «Москва-Макдоналдс»), with the remainder owned by franchisees. Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, McDonald's temporarily suspended all operations in the country on 8 March 2022. In May, the company announced that it would sell all of its restaurants…
Protesters at a rally on Independence Square, 19 January 2014
The Normandy Format meeting in December 2019 was the only meeting between Zelenskyy and Putin.
Russian military build-up around Ukraine as of 3 December 2021
Meeting of the NATO-Russia Council on 12 January 2022