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Interior of McDonald's Pushkin Square re-designed by Landini Associates to celebrate 30 years of McDonald's in Russia, pictured in 2020. In January 2020, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of its opening, the first Russian McDonald's on Moscow's Pushkin Square (which had previously been renovated in 2010) was redesigned by Landini Associates. [10]
Opening of the first Vkusno i tochka restaurant in Pushkin Square, Moscow, 12 June 2022.Formerly the first Russian McDonald's in the country. On 8 March 2022, facing continued pressure due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, McDonald's announced the temporary suspension of operation of its restaurants in Russia, while also announcing at the same time that it would continue to pay its employees ...
McDonald's later chose to permanently shut down all McDonald's operations in Russia, citing geopolitical concern. Before its closure, McDonald's had opened 850 restaurants in Russia. [ 59 ] The brand was relaunched on June 12, 2022, as Vkusno i tochka (Вкусно и точка, "Tasty and that's it") by local franchisee Alexander Govor, who ...
Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the McDonald's brand pulled out of Russia and all former McDonald's locations were sold to local chains, with many being rebranded as fast-food restaurants under the Vkusno i tochka brand serving nearly identical fare to the previous McDonald's locations in the country. [118]
Pre-Ukrainian war McDonald's in Moscow, Russia in 2011 The first McDonald's in Estonia, located in the Tallinn Old Town in 2019. 1990: On January 31, the first McDonald's restaurant opened in the Soviet Union, in Moscow. [70] Located in Pushkinskaya Square, it served 30,000 people on opening day, and was the largest McDonald's in the world at ...
Cohon was involved in opening McDonald's in the former Soviet Union with the first restaurant opening in Moscow on January 31, 1990. [8] He was subsequently named Russia's "Capitalist Hero of Labor." [10] The first restaurant was at the time McDonald's biggest, and was opened with minimal involvement from the U.S. parent company, for political ...
BBC News (known as BBC World News until 2023) is an international English-language pay television channel owned by BBC Global News Ltd. – a subsidiary of BBC Studios – and operated by the BBC News division of the BBC.
The "golden arches" arrived in Moscow in 1990, and became an iconic symbol of American capitalism as the Soviet Union fell.