Owner of former Russian McDonald’s stores to buy another western firm, signaling new business trend

Businessman Alexander Govor, owner of the Vkusno i Tochka fast food chain and founder of the GiD company, looks on at a newly opened fast food restaurant in a former McDonald's outlet in Bolshaya Bronnaya Street in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, June 12, 2022. The first of former McDonald's restaurants is reopened with new branding in Moscow. The corporation sold its branches in Russia to one of its local licensees after Russia sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine. (AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov)