Universal Pictures, the first of the Hollywood Maighors, will finally leave Russia.

This happens after the General Director of the American studio fell on the Black List in the Russian Federation.

Universal reported that in the current conditions they cannot continue activities.

The company's office will be closed, some employees switched to another job. It is highly likely that the studio content will gradually be withdrawn from domestic online cinemas.universal notes that relations with Russian cinemas will be completed in the coming months.

Studios Sony, Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount retain their representative offices in the Russian Federation, but in the mode of suspension of activity. Employees continue to receive a salary, and some help with the tasks of the maternal company in activities in the countries of Eastern Europe and the Baltic states.

Over the past years, Universal has released dozens of blockbusters in Russia, rolled Warner Bros. films for about a year, brought diesel, Danny Devito, Rowen Atkinson and other foreign actors to the country.

By the end of summer, other companies may follow the example of Universal, because The maintenance of offices is not cheap, and the prospects for the resumption of activity are not visible.

Against this background, Russian cinemas and film producers demand to resolve the parallel import of Hollywood films for rental in Russia. They plan to download them from torrents after the release of the novelty on Blu-ray, and then show through a certain new state operator, which is offered to create so that it is extreme if there are any complaints from Western companies.

The cinemas are ready to pay taxes from the shows and even transfer a small amount in rubles to the Hollywood studio in the Russian bank, open without its approval, from where the company will not be able to withdraw funds in the coming months or a year or two.

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The calculation was made that the company would pay for activities in Russia with these funds, but it was decided to gradually cure it.

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