date:Aug 22, 2014
t Union was maintaining those relations because the first McDonald's opened during the USSR times, and PepsiCo (PEP.N) factories continued to function regardless of political crises, he added.
Since McDonald's first broke into Russia, it has for many Russian consumers been overshadowed by hundreds of swanky French and Japanese restaurants in the Russian capital, but it remains a powerful symbol, and therefore a prominent target.
On Thursday, outside the shuttered restaurant on Moscow's Pushkin