(MENAFN) McDonald"s had shut down its restaurants in Crimea, as a prominent Moscow politician called for all the U.S. fast food chain"s outlets in Russia to be shut, according to the Daily Star.
McDonald"s decision to leave the region gives a sign of the rift in Western-Russian relations, now at their lowest ebb since the end of the Cold War.
A spokeswoman said: "Due to operational reasons beyond our control, McDonald"s has taken the decision to temporarily close our three restaurants in Simferopol, Sevastopol and Yalta."
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