Europe 1 with AFP 12:08 p.m., May 30, 2022
Netflix, the American video-on-demand platform, has just finalized its withdrawal from Russia in response to the conflict led by Moscow in Ukraine.
As a direct consequence, it is now impossible to connect to Netflix throughout Russia, which has 700,000 subscribers to the VOD service.
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This is the sanction that has just fallen on the heads of the Russians on Monday.
The American video-on-demand platform is now inaccessible in Russia, the Californian streaming giant told AFP on Monday.
It is the latest Western company to finalize its withdrawal from the country because of the offensive in Ukraine.
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The Netflix site and application have therefore not been available in Russia since Friday, AFP journalists noted.
"It is the materialization of the withdrawal from the Russian market" announced in March, explained Netflix, specifying that the American platform had waited for the end of a billing cycle to block the platform in Russia.
Previously, the site remained accessible, and customers in Russia with non-Russian online payment methods could continue to subscribe.
221.8 million subscribers worldwide
In March, the video-on-demand giant announced the suspension of its service on Russian territory due to the conflict in Ukraine and had interrupted its acquisitions in Russia as well as its productions of original programs.
Leader in online video in the world, with 221.8 million paying subscribers at the end of 2021, Netflix had some 700,000 subscribers in Russia, according to official figures from the American platform.
Netflix has joined the many foreign companies that have announced the suspension of their activities or their outright withdrawal from Russia since the launch of the Russian offensive on February 24.