Translated copy of trademark application dated March 12th. View the original here.
A group of no-doubt politically connected Russian businessmen are reportedly making moves to appropriate all Russian McDonald’s locations with a knockoff brand called “Uncle Vanya’s”, per 9News Australia. It is unclear how serious this effort is given the lack of specificity in reporting, but there’s no reason to doubt that if the Kremlin wants it, it will happen. Bellingcat’s Christo Grozev reports separately the speaker of the Russian parliament backs the proposal.