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Russian consumer rights watchdog shuts a McDonald’s outlet in Astrakhan

The director of the closed McDonald’s outlet was not available for comment
ABOUT MCDONALD'S CORP.

The McDonald’s Corporation, founded in 1940, is the world’s largest fast-food chain. It has more than 35,000 outlets in 119 countries. The first McDonald's location opened in 1940 in San Bernardino, California.

Russia's first McDonald's opened on Moscow's Pushkin Square in 1990, when it was viewed as a sign that Cold War tensions with the United States were starting to thaw.

McDonald's operates 438 restaurants in Russia and sees the country as one of its top seven major markets outside the United States and Canada, according to its 2013 annual report.

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