International companies that partially or completely leave Russia provide jobs for more than 200,000 people in the country, according to Forbes magazine.

According to the publication, McDonald's is the largest employer of the companies that announced their withdrawal. In Russia, the chain of fast food restaurants employs 62,000 people.

Pepsico is the second largest company in terms of the number of employees.

According to SPARK, cited by Forbes, more than 8,000 people work at the non-alcoholic beverage production facility controlled by it in Solnechnogorsk, more than 1,500 people work at Frito-Lay Manufacturing chips company in Kashira, which produces dairy products and baby food - 8.6 thousand people, at the Lebedyansky juice enterprise - another 462 people. It is noted that in total about 19 thousand people work for Pepsico in Russia.

IKEA closed all Russian stores for three months, with the exception of 14 Mega shopping centers, and stopped local production and purchases from local contractors. The company employs 15 thousand employees, whom IKEA has not yet fired. For three months they will work with pay. IKEA Russia spokesman Konstantin Tyutrin clarified to the magazine that this is not a severance pay and employees work as usual, are on the staff of the company and receive a salary.

Yum! Brands, which owns the KFC and Pizza Hut brands, is the third-largest company in terms of the number of employees that has also suspended operations. The Russian enterprises of the company have more than 14.5 thousand employees. It is specified that the work of 70 KFC restaurants, which the company controlled directly, has been frozen, while the entire network has about 1,000 outlets, most of which are franchised.

Another 502 Russian stores have suspended work by the decision of the Spanish company Inditex, which owns the brands Zara, Pull & Bear, Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Stradivarius, Oysho and others. After the temporary closure of stores, Inditex continues to financially support nearly 9,000 employees.

Among the automakers that have suspended their activities, the largest employer is the Volkswagen concern, which employs almost 5.8 thousand people. The publication clarifies that, according to the company, employees in Russia will receive short-term work benefits. It is noted that the contract assembly of VW and Skoda was carried out at the site of the automobile plant of the Gaz group in Nizhny Novgorod. Now the site has been put into temporary idle mode, with the preservation of 2/3 of the salary and social guarantees for employees.

Also, EPAM Systems, which employs more than 6,000 people, announced the termination of customer service in Russia.