<story><title>McDonald’s to Exit from Russia</title><url>https://corporate.mcdonalds.com/corpmcd/en-us/our-stories/article/ourstories.mcd-exit-russia.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mupuff1234</author><text>Can you sell the Russian business without violating the sanctions?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lotusmars</author><text>Russian social media are full of winking posts hinting that McDonald&amp;#x27;s will sell operations to a Russian company which it will still profit from &amp;quot;behind the scenes&amp;quot; (via offshore proxy or some other indirect way). They also hint that this will pave the way for other Western companies currently in limbo: split ownership between controllable proxy and Russian owner. And at the same time shout in Bloomberg how much you condemn Russian invasion to pacify Western public.&lt;p&gt;Can anyone confirm if it&amp;#x27;s possible? I hope it&amp;#x27;s Russian desinformation again, but I fear it&amp;#x27;s possible looking at how &amp;quot;well&amp;quot; Western &amp;quot;sanctions&amp;quot; work (Moscow feels great, ruble is much stronger than even pre-war).</text></comment>
<story><title>McDonald’s to Exit from Russia</title><url>https://corporate.mcdonalds.com/corpmcd/en-us/our-stories/article/ourstories.mcd-exit-russia.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mupuff1234</author><text>Can you sell the Russian business without violating the sanctions?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jnorthrop</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure who downvoted you. It is a good question. McDonald&amp;#x27;s and other consumer goods type companies are not sanctioned, so the company can sell its assets. For that matter they could continue to operate as normal in Russia if they choose.</text></comment>