Coffee giant Starbucks announced Monday it would exit Russia after operating in the country for 15 years. Photo: VCG

A Starbucks café at the Afimall City in Moscow is closed on March 26. The company has 130 licensed stores in Russia. Photo: Oleg Nikishin/VCG

An employee closes the door of a Starbucks café at Vegas Shopping Centre in Moscow on March 10. The company suspended its Russian business that month. Photo: Oleg Nikishin/VCG

A car passes through the first Starbucks drive-through café in Russia at the Pushkino Park outside Moscow in March 2018. Photo: Anton Novoderezhkin/VCG

Customers sit in a Starbucks store in the Khimki-Mega shopping mall near Moscow in September 2007. This was the first Russian location. Photo: Dmitry Beliakov/VCG

Hundreds of people line up outside the first McDonald’s restaurant in Moscow in January 1990. The company was the first American fast-food restaurant to enter Russia when it was a part of the Soviet Union. Photo: VCG

An employee serves customers in a McDonald’s at Moscow’s Pushkin Square in February 2010. Photo: Alexander Nemenov/VCG

People eat in the McDonald’s restaurant at Pushkin Square in February 2010. The chain opened 850 restaurants in Russia. Photo: Ivan Sekretarev/VCG

A McDonald’s restaurant in Moscow is closed on May 16 as the company announced it would exit Russia after more than 30 years of operation. Photo: Sefa Karacan/VCG

Dismantled corporate logos and signs are seen outside a former McDonald’s restaurant Monday in Khimki, outside Moscow. Photo: Vitaly Smolnikov/The Paper