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George Cohon, Who Brought Big Macs to Moscow, Dies at 86

He was chairman of McDonald’s in Canada and in Russia, where he opened the chain’s first restaurant in 1990, engaging in what he called “hamburger diplomacy.”

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Canada, Deaths (Obituaries), Fast Food Industry, Kroc, Ray, McDonald’s Corporation, Moscow (Russia), Ronald McDonald House, USSR (Former Soviet Union)
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