Russia bans McDonalds

http://english.pravda.ru/business/companies/25-07-2014/128162-mcdonalds_russia-0/

that is official, coming from now reinstated http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda newspaper.

Putin has ordered to build 380 new churches in Moscow:
http://www.yaplakal.com/forum3/topic892238.html

using public's money of course, because religion increases troops morale and religious population is Putin's main electorate. So basically Russia also has hidden church tax:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_tax

you pay it even if you are atheist.