Business peciliarities in Ukraine and Bealrus
Belarus about USD 10.5 million.
In 2002 McDonald's had to close one of its most profitable restaurants in Belarus,
because the Belarusian State University started construction of a new building on the
restaurant's land plot. The fact that Minsk State Executive Committee had previously
leased the land to McDonald's till 2036 did not prevent the closure.
In January 2011 the State took administrative control over a huge furniture joint stock
company "Pinskdrev" although it did not own any shares there.
In a few months after Pinskdrev, state officials made one of the main stockholders and
the director of a Belarusian big tile and sanitary engineering company Keramin to vacate
his position. After his retirement, state's share in Keramin increased from 3% to 57%.
De facto nationalization of Spartak and Kommunarka confectioneries in 2012. The
confectioneries were transformed into joint-stock companies in 1993 and 1994. The
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