"Western cinema has left Russia. A long time ago it was time to do: all the payments that cinemas used to send to all sorts of Western copyright holders should be sent to the fund for the support of CVO participants, "RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
According to Khamzayev, his proposal will have a double benefit: in this way it will be possible to increase the number of films shown, and the state "will show a vector."
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev earlier spoke in favor of the distribution of pirated copies of Western intellectual products.
The politician called for "depriving" Western producers of "part of their non-property rights."
He also noted that a significant part of the products of the companies that left Russia come to Russia through gray (or parallel) imports.
Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov supported the idea of Medvedev.