how global trade is responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
- Written by Flavio Macau, Associate Dean Teaching & Learning, Edith Cowan University

Russia’s first McDonald’s store in opened in 1990, just months after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was a potent symbol that the Cold War was ending and a great ideological wound healing.
Now every McDonald’s in Russia is closed, as nations and corporations reduce, suspend or sever ties in response to the invasion of...