By: EFE Updated 02 Mar 2022, 34: 34 pm EST
Netflix will paralyze all its content production and acquisition activity in Russia due to the invasion of Ukraine.
The company had four original Russian-language projects underway, including the long-awaited “Anna K” series, based on the novel “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstóy, and “Zato”, a production set in the fall of the Soviet Union.
According to internal Netflix sources, quoted by Variety magazine, the platform is “ evaluating the impact of current events“.
Earlier this week, the television giant announced that it will not comply with Russia’s new audiovisual law, which would force the platform to include twenty of public channels to be able to operate in the country.
The legislation, which was scheduled to come into force on March 1, imposed Netflix and other services aut broadcasting content from media affiliated with the Kremlin such as Channel One, the NTV entertainment network and the Orthodox Church Channel.
Netflix launched its local service in Russian just over a year ago and barely has 1 million subscribers in that country, a tiny percentage of the more than 222 million subscribers that it adds throughout the world.
Even so, the platform is part of the list of “audiovisual services” drawn up by the Russian media regulator, Roskomnadzor, and which includes all platforms or channels with more than 54 thousand spectators, all forced to comply with the new norm.
A significant number of companies from the world of technology and entertainment -mostly based in California (USA)- are responding in a similar way to the war in Ukraine.
The studies of The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. and Universal Pictures will not release their new films cells in Russia.
The technological Meta communicated that it will restrict access to the RT network and the Sputnik agency, media affiliated with the Russian Government, on its social networks -which include Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp- at the request of the European Union (EU).
Twitter, another American social network, also announced this Monday that it will add a warning to messages that share links and news from media controlled by the Kremlin, which it will also try to reduce their circulation on the platform.
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