The American platform Netflix is now inaccessible in Russia, the Californian streaming giant told AFP on Monday, the latest company in the West to date to end its withdrawal from the country due to Russia’s offensive in Ukraine.
The Netflix site and application have not been available in Russia since Friday, AFP journalists said.
This is the materialization of the withdrawal from the Russian market announced in March, Netflix explained to AFP, stating that the American platform was waiting for the end of a billing phase to block the platform in Russia.
In the past, the site remained accessible, and Russian customers with non -Russian online payment methods – those provided by Russian banks that did not pass due to Western sanctions – could continue to subscribe.
In March, the video on demand giant announced the suspension of its service on Russian territory due to the conflict in Ukraine and delayed its acquisitions in Russia as well as its production of original content.
The world’s leading online video, with 221.8 million paid accounts by the end of 2021, Netflix will have about 700,000 subscribers in Russia, according to official figures from the American platform.
Netflix has joined foreign companies that have announced the suspension of their activities or their explicit departure from Russia since launching a Russian offensive in Ukraine on February 24th.
Source: Radio-Canada
