Fast food is one aspect of American culture you Russians would do well to avoid. I hear its already messing up the diets of the Japanese, whose traditional diets, heavy on fish and vegetables and such, contributes and contributed greatly to their especial longevity.

Russia Government should Prohibit this kind of companys. This is dangeours for health. It will weak the russian people specialy the youth.

It is sad that the Russians patronize such chains as McDonalds of BurgerKing. Russian cousine is wonderful, and a million times healthier. Perhaps it is because a part of the popluation wants to try something new and unusual? It could be that some still feel infatuated with everything American. Hopefully this is just a temporary, if awfully unhealthy, fad and it will soon pass. Russians should promote threir own cousine and build their own restaurants. Also, ethnic restaurants in Moscow have always been great.

It is just an option for consumers. Probably it will be expensive for most Russians, but if any wants to eat that burger one day for a change, why not? The problem is that if consumers go just once a month it cannot be profitable, and if they go more than once a week it cannot be healthy. Fat Russian children is next.

Thanks RT For deleting 2 posts I made only to be filled by more people who wrote exactly what I said. This is just a fat factory selling scrap foods presented more edible. They use ammonia to clean the meat. FDA approval for this and they never inspected it. Now meat industry uses scrap meat filled with bacteria, the left overs after all other parts have been packaged. They use ammonia to "kill bacteria". Of course it doesn't kill all of it. Then they sell off this canned dog food meat as hamburger meat. YUMMY!!! Aficionado? yeah right. If you love burgers, you'd be making them yourself over a barbecue, not going to these type restaurants. This is a sad story for RUSSIA. MacDonald's brought fat to Moscow and it shows. Many people have become obese in Moscow compared to other regions because of this Americanized lifestyle of fast food. William is correct as this is the part of American lifestyle that is NOT good. @Enrique are you serious? Can't afford? What a joke. Have you seen MacDonald's in Russia? The lines are always huge. Shopping centers are packed. I know people from America who have gone from Middle Class to needing food stamps for survival. To think people can't afford fast food is an insult. They're cheap and that's why they're so prevalent. This is why even India ran a story about linking Obesity to their MacDonald's and other fast food joints that came there. Russia's pain in the Global Economic Crisis was salary pay freezes and in Monograds as they are called, a lot of lost jobs. Most people can afford a 1$ burger that Burger King offers.

Artyom, In Spain burgers were a fad 25 years ago when they arrived...but people continued with their traditional food, which is usually less or as much expensive as burger chains.

And you appreciate Big Neon American Signs pasting themselves across your traditional cities? You enjoy your culture being Americanized? You enjoy the fact that likely millions of people go there because they are lazy. It doesn't change the fact that mindless people wanting quick food will always wonder into these restaurants. It is irresponsible to let them sell food as it is irresponsible to let those rat infested street stands selling their Shaurma. It goes beyond choice, it is neglegence. This has nothing to do about people, bigger choice, and economics. It is criminal. These big companies know they are fattening, they know they are enriching America by spreading their businesses around the world, an act that is NOT reciprocated. Then the waist lines of each nation that allows them to enter expand! And EXPAND They Have!!!! MacDonald's has already done its job in Moscow where the fattest people live. People don't know what goes into this food. Study what is in it. Absolutely horrible. These things are treated and bagged. Frozen. Russians quivered in fear over the story of 30 year old meat they said was around in the Nixon years that was about to be sold. This meat is no better.