The government has asked to finalise the bill on online-cinemas – RBC

the Russian government supports the bill on the regulation of online cinemas, said in an official opinion to the initiative published on the website of the state Duma. But, as noted in the document, a positive conclusion is possible under condition of revision of the document taking into account the comments of the government for the second reading.

In particular, the government indicates that “the need to limit the share of foreign participation in the Charter capital of a legal entity that can host audio / video services (online cinema. — RBC) requires additional justification”. The government also asked for clarification used in the bill the concept of “audiovisual service”, “audiovisual production” and “formation of audiovisual products”. It is also necessary to Refine the criteria for inclusion of services providing access to audiovisual products, in a special register and clarify several other provisions and amendments.

amendments to the existing legislation regulating the activities of online cinemas, was introduced in the state Duma on 25 November, 2016 with the deputies Andrei Lugovoi and Samail by Saralieva. The document proposes to ban foreigners from owning more than 20% of the services, whose daily audience in the course of a month is more than 100 thousand users in the whole territory of Russia and more than 20 thousand — in one region of the country. Online movie theaters must be registered in the registry of Roscomnadzor. In the case of adoption of law it shall enter into force on 1 March this year.

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market Participants were in favour of the bill. Working group “Communication and IT” of the expert Council under the government gave a negative conclusion on the amendments, arguing that transnational companies will be forced to shut down its operations in Russia or to ignore the requirements of the law.

Oleg Tumanov, CEO of the largest online cinema in Russia ivi.ru among the owners of which are foreign funds, predicted that the Russian people will continue to enter into foreign VPN services and five years 80-90% of the market will be in three Western players: Google, Apple and YouTube as part of Google.