Taste of freedom: what the closure of the first Moscow McDonald’s means for Russia today

In Russia, we don’t panic easily. We get used to change fairly quickly. On the day of the self-imposed embargo of western food, my Facebook page was flooded by jokes about delicious Belarusian mussels and toothsome Chinese ham, some of them already in comic strip form. The reality is that we’ll get the same food with a “Made in Belarus” sticker glued on.