At 15and day of the war in Ukraine, the list of American companies that stop all activity in Russia continues to grow.
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From our correspondent in the United States, Claire Meynial
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VS’was the 1er February 1990, on Pushkin Square in Moscow and according to the New York Times, “connoisseurs of fast food and human behavior were doubly pleased as a feverish crowd of Soviet customers” ordered “Beeg Mek” at the country’s first McDonald’s. The line, according to the article, was even “much longer than in front of Lenin’s Mausoleum”. Since then, the Big Mac giant has flourished in Russia, counting 850 addresses. But on March 8, CEO Chris Kempczinski addressed this letter to his employees and franchisees: “We serve millions of Russian customers every day who rely on McDonald’s. In the more than 30 years that McDonald’s has worked in Russia, we have become an essential player in the 850 communities in which we work…
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