In Moscow, McDonald's packs up, radio falls silent and the brain drain begins
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The closure of McDonald's in Russia is about more than Big Macs, writes Andrei Kolesnikov. "Thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, we are not moving forward toward a normal market as it was in the 1990s, but back toward a primitive economy and way of life. It is a journey back in time."
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