This morning, CEETV received the following statement from ITV Studios which we publish in full:

"Whilst Russia is not a significant market for ITV Studios, we have previously sold licensed content to Russian clients which has included drama, formats and non-scripted content. In light of the Russian invasion into Ukraine new sales to Russian clients were immediately stopped in March.

We have written directly to Channel One to ask them to stop producing and transmitting new seasons of The Voice and The Voice Senior as they have no contract which allows them to do so. ITV Studios is not involved in the productions and Channel One is unable to access any new assets required to make the shows."

CEETV reminds that Perviy (Channel One) recently announced the return of both The Voice Senior and The Voice to its fall schedule.

In related, several BBC series are no longer unavailable in the Kinopoisk online cinema (Yandex), as RBC reports. The British corporation announced that it had withdrawn the license for its content for Russia.

The audience no longer has access to Ripper Street, Miss Marple, War and Peace, Pride and Prejudice on Kinopoisk. At the same time, Doctor Who, The Empty Crown, The Tudors, Merlin, Killing Eve are still available. “We have stopped licensing content for Russian users,” the BBC commented.

Kinopoisk said that the information about the disappearance of all BBC series is “incorrect” and popular British series are still available. The representative of the service did not comment on the information about the revocation of the license by the corporation.