Russian Users Sued Netflix

In February, many companies announced that they had withdrawn from Russia, which declared war on Ukraine; One of the companies emerging from the Russian market is the popular broadcasting platform. Netflix had happened. Last March, Netflix announced that it had decided to temporarily suspend all its activities and projects in Russia due to the occupation of Ukraine. However, this sanction of Netflix made the Russians very angry. pissed off looks like.

According to the RIA news agency today, Russian Netflix users have signed up to the streaming giant, citing its departure from the Russian market. class action lawsuit has opened. From Netflix as compensation for the Russians who are the plaintiffs. 726 thousand dollars He is said to be demanding compensation.

The ‘violation’ of the rights of Russian users was cited as the reason

According to the RIA, Chernyshov, Lukoyanov & Partners, a law firm, “Today, a law firm representing the interests of Netflix users filed a class action lawsuit against the American Netflix service in Moscow’s Khamovnichesky District Court” confirmed that Russian users are suing Netflix. However, Chenyshov, Lukoyanov & Partners, in a statement on the subject, stated that the cause of the lawsuit was the unilateral refusal of Netflix to provide services in Russia, so that Russian users violation of their rights stated that.

For this lawsuit filed against him, there is no news from Netflix yet. no explanation came.

On the other hand, Russia, where Spotify, Meta, Shell, Volvo, YouTube and many more companies ceased to operate, most sanctioned country went down in history. However, the fact that Russian users are suing Netflix for ‘violation of rights’ may mean that we will hear such cases frequently in the future for other companies.