俄羅斯加大對麥當勞打擊力度
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.
麥當勞(McDonald's)成爲俄羅斯因烏克蘭問題與西方尖銳對峙中最大的犧牲品之一。俄羅斯政府近日加大了對這家美國快餐連鎖集團的打擊力度，對其門店展開了逾200項調查。
The latest salvo subjects almost half of McDonald’s outlets in Russia to probes over hygiene or finance.
在最近這次全面行動中，麥當勞在俄羅斯近一半的門店遭遇了衛生或財務方面的調查。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，俄羅斯消費者保護機構曾以涉嫌違反諸多衛生條例爲由，令麥當勞四家最大門店暫停營業。此後，該機構又關停了五家麥當勞門店。
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.
當時，此舉被視爲莫斯科方面安撫國內反西方情緒、迴應歐美製裁的政治信號。此前，美國和歐盟(EU)的制裁措施導致俄羅斯的銀行和企業無法從全球資本市場中融資。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.
不過自那之後，對麥當勞分店的調查不僅不見減少，反而繼續迅速增加。上週末，麥當勞俄羅斯分公司在網站發佈一份聲明，表示：“目前，俄羅斯政府已啓動了逾200項調查。”該公司表示，俄羅斯一家法院已延長了最初九家分店的臨時停業期，並表示將就這一裁決提起上訴。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.
麥當勞在俄羅斯擁有450家分店，其中逾100家位於莫斯科及其周邊地帶，還有逾60家位於俄羅斯第二大都市圈聖彼得堡及其周邊地帶。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.
在麥當勞最初受到調查的九家分店中，四家分店位於莫斯科，兩家位於富裕的烏拉爾城市葉卡捷琳堡，兩家位於俄羅斯南部城市伏爾加格勒，還有一家位於主辦了今年冬奧會的黑海度假勝地索契。除了這九家分店之外，麥當勞並未就具體哪家分店受到調查提供進一步細節。
