MOSCOW —
Russian subscribers have lost
access to streaming giant Netflix in the latest pullout of a Western company
over the conflict in Ukraine.
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The Netflix site and apps were no longer available
from Friday and a Netflix spokesperson confirmed that subscribers no longer had
access.
“This is the fulfilment of the withdrawal from the
Russian market” announced in March, a
Netflix spokesperson told AFP on Monday.
The US-based platform announced in early March that
it was withdrawing from Russia after
Moscow sent thousands of troops into
pro-Western Ukraine.
The spokesperson said the company had waited until
the end of the current billing cycle before cutting off customers.
Netflix is the
world’s leading streaming platform, with 221.8 million subscribers at the end
of 2021, but was a minor player in Russia.
The company said in an April letter to shareholders
that it had lost 700,000 paid subscribers as a result of its withdrawal from
Russia, blaming the pullout for its first global drop in subscribers in a
decade.
Netflix is among a host of foreign companies that have
announced the suspension of operations or outright withdrawal from Russia since
the launch of Moscow’s campaign in Ukraine on February 24.
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