俄罗斯加大对麦当劳打击力度
Russia has broadened its crackdown on McDonald’s to more than 200 separate investigations, in a campaign that makes the US fast food group one of the biggest casualties of Moscow’s festering stand-off with the west over Ukraine.
麦当劳(McDonald's)成为俄罗斯因乌克兰问题与西方尖锐对峙中最大的牺牲品之一。俄罗斯政府近日加大了对这家美国快餐连锁集团的打击力度，对其门店展开了逾200项调查。
The latest salvo subjects almost half of McDonald’s outlets in Russia to probes over hygiene or finance.
在最近这次全面行动中，麦当劳在俄罗斯近一半的门店遭遇了卫生或财务方面的调查。In August, Russia’s consumer protection agency ordered four of the company’s largest restaurants to suspend operations over a host of alleged hygiene violations and shortly afterwards added another five to the list.
今年8月，俄罗斯消费者保护机构曾以涉嫌违反诸多卫生条例为由，令麦当劳四家最大门店暂停营业。此后，该机构又关停了五家麦当劳门店。
At the time, the decision was seen as a political message aimed at mollifying anti-western sentiment and demonstrating that Moscow was responding to sanctions imposed by the US and the EU, which have crippled Russian banks and corporates in their ability to access global capital markets.
当时，此举被视为莫斯科方面安抚国内反西方情绪、回应欧美制裁的政治信号。此前，美国和欧盟(EU)的制裁措施导致俄罗斯的银行和企业无法从全球资本市场中融资。But since then, regulatory moves against the chain’s outlets have mushroomed. “Right now, more than 200 probes have been initiated,” McDonald’s Russia said in a statement released on its website at the weekend. It said a court had extended the consumer watchdog’s temporary closure of the initial nine restaurants and added that it would appeal against the decision.
不过自那之后，对麦当劳分店的调查不仅不见减少，反而继续迅速增加。上周末，麦当劳俄罗斯分公司在网站发布一份声明，表示：“目前，俄罗斯政府已启动了逾200项调查。”该公司表示，俄罗斯一家法院已延长了最初九家分店的临时停业期，并表示将就这一裁决提起上诉。McDonald’s has 450 restaurants in Russia, more than 100 of which are in Moscow and the surrounding region. More than 60 are in St Petersburg and the surrounding region, the country’s second big metropolitan area.
麦当劳在俄罗斯拥有450家分店，其中逾100家位于莫斯科及其周边地带，还有逾60家位于俄罗斯第二大都市圈圣彼得堡及其周边地带。The company did not give details on which of these were affected apart from the initial nine, which included four in Moscow, two in the affluent Urals city of Yekaterinburg, two in the southern Russian city of Volgograd and one in Sochi, the Black Sea resort that hosted this year’s Winter Olympics.
在麦当劳最初受到调查的九家分店中，四家分店位于莫斯科，两家位于富裕的乌拉尔城市叶卡捷琳堡，两家位于俄罗斯南部城市伏尔加格勒，还有一家位于主办了今年冬奥会的黑海度假胜地索契。除了这九家分店之外，麦当劳并未就具体哪家分店受到调查提供进一步细节。
