People walk past Moscow's first McDonalds a day before its opening in Pushkin Square on Jan. 30, 1990. Two months after the Berlin Wall fell, McDonald’s opened its doors in the middle of Moscow. It was the first American fast food restaurant to enter th...

FILE - People walk past Moscow's first McDonalds a day before its opening, in Moscow's Pushkin Square, Jan. 30, 1990. Two months after the Berlin Wall fell, McDonald’s opened its doors in the middle of Moscow. It was the first American fast-food restaurant to enter the Soviet Union. But now, McDonald's is temporarily closing its 850 restaurants in Russia in response to the Ukraine invasion. (AP Photo/Vicktor Yurchenko, File)

The company was the oldest American fast-food chain in Russia.

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