MOSCOW - Sanat Parmanova arrived at Moscow's flagship McDonald's just off Pushkin Square on Aug. 22 evening as a woman on a mission. Her friend Svetlana Toktorbayeva was carrying a takeout bag of wings from KFC, but Ms. Parmanova had a different dinner in mind: a double cheeseburger, country-style fries, cheese sauce and a medium Coke, no ice.
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A man reads a newspaper as he sits at a table of a closed McDonald's restaurant, the first to be opened in the Soviet Union in 1990, in Moscow on Aug. 21, 2014.
