December 28 & nbsp; Roskomnadzor has completed the process of adding the US streaming platform Netflix to the & nbsp; register of audiovisual services.
& laquo; LLC & bdquo; Online entertainment service & ldquo; ensured compliance with the requirements of the current legislation of the Russian Federation, necessary for its registration in & nbsp; register of audiovisual services in & nbsp; as the owner of the audiovisual service Netflix in & nbsp; Russia. Roskomnadzor entered the Internet service in the register & nbsp; ABC & raquo ;, & nbsp; & mdash; stated in the comments of the department & nbsp; December 28 & nbsp ;. Online Entertainment Service, which operates Netflix in & nbsp; Russia, is part of the National Media Group.
LLC bdquo; Online Entertainment Service & ldquo; ensured compliance with the requirements of the current legislation of the Russian Federation, necessary for its registration in & nbsp; register of audiovisual services in & nbsp; as the owner of the audiovisual service Netflix in & nbsp; Russia & raquo ;, & nbsp; & mdash; indicated in the & nbsp; NMG press service.
Netflix entering the & nbsp; register & nbsp; & mdash; plus point, believes Internet Video Association CEO Alexey Byrdin . According to & nbsp; he said, this should ensure the equality of foreign services and & nbsp; nationals before the legislation of & nbsp; RF and & nbsp; put all the players in the Russian market in & nbsp; more equal conditions.
“ This step itself is welcome, as it is impossible to be in a situation where Russian services obey the laws and foreign services operating in Russia, for some reason, do not. There are a lot of requests & nbsp; we have in & nbsp; this business segment, and & nbsp; the fact that Netflix has been outside the Russian legal realm for so long has given it an unwarranted competitive advantage ', & nbsp; & mdash; Byrdin believes.
According to & nbsp;, he said, the owner of Netflix (the service and the site are owned by an American company) will have to open a Russian legal entity which will accept legally significant messages from & nbsp; Russian supervisor the authorities. “ There will be a full-fledged office in & nbsp; Russia. This is a direct legal obligation. Additionally, Netflix will have to distribute 20 federal TV channels, along with the rest of the Russian services, due to new requirements already introduced this year, starting in March of next year. It will be necessary to transfer data to only one Internet audience measurement, it will be necessary, in & nbsp; in particular, to mark all your content in & nbsp; in accordance with the requirements of Russian law. Now there is content tagging in & nbsp; Netflix, but & nbsp; to what extent it complies with Russian law & bdquo; protecting children from & nbsp; information & ldquo ;, I & nbsp; am not & nbsp; sure that & nbsp; fully. Most likely, after some time the content labeling and & nbsp; his & nbsp; appearance will have to change a bit, and & nbsp; somewhere from the & nbsp; spring, most likely it will be possible to watch Channel One on & nbsp; Netflix, and & nbsp; some other TV channels, included in & nbsp; 20 & nbsp; Federal & raquo ;, & nbsp; & mdash; he commented & nbsp; future changes.
The register of audiovisual services was created by Roskomnadzor at the & nbsp; end of 2020 in the & nbsp; objective of monitoring prohibited content in & nbsp; the online cinemas available in & nbsp; the territory of the Russian Federation. Resources with & nbsp; daily audience of over 100 & nbsp; thousand are added to & nbsp; users. On & nbsp; today the registry of & nbsp; includes more than 20 & nbsp; platforms, including More.tv, KION, Kinopoisk and & nbsp; others. Netflix & nbsp; & mdash; the first foreign platform to appear in this list.