Short answers, pulled from the story.
The first McDonald's restaurant opened on Moscow's Pushkin Square on the 31st of January 1990. Approximately thirty-eight thousand customers waited in lines that stretched for hours, breaking company records at the time.
Moscow mayor Vladimir Promyslov vetoed the plan entirely in autumn 1979. This decision stood even as hundreds of other Western companies were allowed to become official suppliers for the event.
On the 16th of May 2022, after temporarily closing its restaurants, the company decided to exit Russia altogether. On the 27th of May 2022, it was reported that McDonald's was selling its stores in Russia to a local licensee named Alexander Govor.
At the beginning of the invasion, over eight hundred restaurants operated across Russia with a total of sixty-two thousand employees. Hundreds of suppliers supported millions of daily customers.
Alexander Govor replaced the brand with Vkusno i tochka which means Simply Delicious. Restaurants offer replacements for all menu items, but most are rebranded under this new name.