Standards regulator shuts McDonald's restaurant in Yekaterinburg

YEKATERINBURG, August 26 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's foods standards agency has ordered temporary closure of a McDonald's restaurant in the Urals region city of Yekaterinburg, the fifth such shutdown among the fast food chain's Russian outlets in recent weeks, McDonald's said on Tuesday. The restaurant was closed after unscheduled checks by the regulator Rospotrebnadzor, a company spokeswoman said. Agency inspectors had already closed three McDonald's restaurants in Moscow, including the famous outlet on Pushkin Square that opened just before the fall of the Soviet Union, and one in the southern Stavropol region. The agency also launched sweeping checks at other locations nationwide. McDonald's operates 435 restaurants in 85 Russian cities and sees the country as one of its top seven major markets outside the United States and Canada, according to its 2013 annual report. Learn more on itar-tass.com