Russia begs McDonald's to open store in Vladivostok

The chief of Russia's economy said on Wednesday he was ready to beg McDonald's to open its first fast food store in the Pacific port city of Vladivostok ahead of an upcoming regional summit there. -- PHOTO: REUTERS MOSCOW (AFP) - The chief of Russia's economy said on Wednesday he was ready to beg McDonald's to open its first fast food store in the Pacific port city of Vladivostok ahead of an upcoming regional summit there. 'We do not have a McDonald's in Vladivostok and I would like to have one there,' the online edition of Vedomosti quoted First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, the government's pointman for the economy, as saying. 'I am ready to use every means at my disposal to convince McDonald's to open a store in Vladivostok,' he was quoted as telling the United States giant's Russia Vice-President Viktor Eidemiller at a forum in the city of Kazan. Russia's main c...

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