No more movies: Disney is completely winding down its activities in Russia

[mkt]

Більше ніякого кіно: Disney повністю згортає свою діяльність на росії

The Walt Disney Company (Disney) завершує підготовку до остаточного виходу з росії. Звільнено всіх співробітників кінопідрозділу компанії.

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and the google translation:

The Walt Disney Company (Disney) is fully ready to exit the Russian market . So, from the office of the film division of the company in Russia, almost all employees have already been dismissed , including the employees of the film distribution department of the studio. This is reported by rosZMI.

"The remaining team will move to Disney's Russian headquarters at the Lotte Plaza shopping center in Moscow to complete the necessary work before the company's operations in Russia are completely shut down," the statement said.

In addition, the mass media write that all current communications with counterparties in the CIS take place exclusively through the Disney office in the USA.

 

[mf1972]

should’ve done it months ago

 

[IanDLBZF]

Additionally, Disney Channel's Ukraine feed will end on 11/25/2022.

 

[TP2000]

Good riddance to them. They can just use their domestic entertainment market instead, or watch pirated DVD's from the West like the North Koreans and Cubans.

I'm slightly amazed though that Disney, and most of corporate America, has set a strong precedence for when a country misbehaves like this. What happens when Communist China invades Taiwan and the TV shows dead civilians in the streets of Taipei? Will Burbank walk away from their huge investments in Communist China, or will they find an excuse to go easier on Beijing than they did Moscow?

 

[lazyboy97o]

Additionally, Disney Channel's Ukraine feed will end on 11/25/2022.

My understanding is that this is Disney Channel Russia which was still broadcasting in Ukraine. The actual Ukraine-based Disney a channel shut down awhile ago.

 

[FettFan]

Eh. Not the first time Disney has cancelled Russia.

 

[FettFan]

Good riddance to them. They can just use their domestic entertainment market instead, or watch pirated DVD's from the West like the North Koreans and Cubans.

Those poor Russian parents will have to suffer through their kids watching reruns of Masha and the Bear.

Not even Guantanamo is so cruel.

 

[Comped]

Eh. Not the first time Disney has cancelled Russia.

One thing that didn't get out too much was the Disney was actively negotiating with the Soviets at one point so they could have actual Red Armt choir members performing in the pavilion.

 

[Disney Irish]

Those poor Russian parents will have to suffer through their kids watching reruns of Masha and the Bear.

Not even Guantanamo is so cruel.

Its no worse then Peppa Pig....

 

[lazyboy97o]

One thing that didn't get out too much was the Disney was actively negotiating with the Soviets at one point so they could have actual Red Armt choir members performing in the pavilion.

It was originally announced as a Soviet Union pavilion, that Disney was negotiating with the Soviets is pretty self evident.

 

[FettFan]

Its no worse then Peppa Pig....

TOUCHE!

 

[Comped]

It was originally announced as a Soviet Union pavilion, that Disney was negotiating with the Soviets is pretty self evident.

Well yes, but how far those talks went was never really publicly disclosed, and, to my knowledge, isn't even in the books that briefly mention the Soviet pavilion.

 

[TsWade2]

Well, it's a good thing I live in the U.S.A.

 

[TP2000]

Those poor Russian parents will have to suffer through their kids watching reruns of Masha and the Bear.

Not even Guantanamo is so cruel.

I watch a few guys on YouTube who tour through Russian shopping malls lately. The Russian economy in the big cities has collapsed, and all the Western stores that pulled out aren't missing anything now. It's over.

But I have about as much sympathy for the average middle-class Russian who keeps voting for Putin as I do for the average minor member of the Chinese Communist Party who will claim at a war tribunal in 2030 that he was "only following orders".