McDonald's is so iconically American

Isn't it -- in so many ways!

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/40a2f0b0-5789-11e4-8493-00144feab7de.html#axzz3GfB598FG
Russia bites back with widening crackdown on McDonald’s 
Russia has broadened its crackdown on McDonald’s to more than 200 separate investigations, in a campaign that makes the US fast food group one of the biggest casualties of Moscow’s festering stand-off with the west over Ukraine.
In August, Russia’s consumer protection agency ordered four of the company’s largest restaurants to suspend operations over a host of alleged hygiene violations and shortly afterwards added another five to the list. 
At the time, the decision was seen as a political message aimed at mollifying anti-western sentiment and demonstrating that Moscow was responding to sanctions imposed by the US and the EU, which have crippled Russian banks and corporates in their ability to access global capital markets....

Thank you, Obama! Thank you, John Kerry-Kohn! Thank you, Victoria Nuland-Nudelman! I believe you folks are directly responsible for this assault goodwill and free enterprise. Not that I'd ever miss McDonald's if it suddenly vanished -- it is so crassly commercial, so..... American.

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