Starbucks left Russia. It is their decision. However the shops
and the registered trademarks remained.
The business was bought from Starbucks' Turkish franchisee
by Russian entrepreneurs Pinsky and Kanokov. They could not think
of anything better but copy Starbucks trademarks and file
applications for slightly modified images:
The first coffee shop was opened on August 18, 2022 under a new
name " Stars Coffee". Creativity is not their strong
suit. Starbucks was a rendition of a mining town Starbos. There are
many mining cities in Russia. They could name their coffee shop
Kemstars (Kemerovo is a mining city in Siberia) or Kustars
(Kuznetsky Mining) or the like but they did not do so. They simply
borrowed half of the word and did not take the trouble to change
much the images, same general impression, same stars.
