Russian business proposes to legally restrict Netflix in the Russian Federation

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Sergei Petrov, deputy director of CTC Media, said at an expanded meeting of the board of the Tatarstan press and mass communications agency that Russian companies could advocate for restrictions for the video streaming market in Russia. Such a move may be required to compete with Netflix, writes "RBC". At the same time, Petrov spoke on behalf of the Media-Communication Union ( ISS ), being its president, CTC Media reported this.

This company represents the interests of the largest media companies and operators in the country’s market. ISS is also part of the Internet Development Institute . The head of the Islamic Republic of Iran is German Klimenko , who currently holds the position of presidential adviser on the Internet.

Petrov believes that "companies must have registered representative offices in Russia, become tax residents so that the turnover of payments received from consumerism passes through the Russian taxable base and the country receives from this an opportunity to strengthen domestic content." At the same time, according to him, “there is no ready-made bill”.
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The president of the ISS said that Netflix could threaten the prospects for import substitution. For example, Netflix buys the rights to show TV shows from Western partners, without ordering anything from local companies.

After speaking in Tatarstan, Petrov remarked that his proposals "were debatable, not declarative." “This is not a personal opinion, I just conveyed the essence of the big discussion that unfolded in the industry last year about the need to regulate the activities of foreign video streaming in Russia,” he said.

Let me remind you that Netflix is ​​already working in Russia. At the moment, the service has 75 million subscribers. In the service catalog of more than 13 thousand units of content.