Russians won’t be able to stream the Harry Potter movies starting Feb. 1

Russians already faced difficulty accessing content from the wizarding world after two of the country’s largest e-book distributors announced last year that they would no longer be selling the series, citing a request from the copyright holder, RBC reported.

Major film studios, including Disney, Warner Bros, and Sony Pictures, have also suspended film releases in the Russian market as a result of the war. The cancelled agreements have impacted Russian streaming services, with RBC reporting a decline in available content ranging from 5% to 42%.

But some companies have notably remained in Russia, including HBO, despite its parent company Warner Bros terminating its remaining deals. Amediateka still promotes some of the studio’s biggest franchises, like Game of Thrones; though some series like White Lotus and Sex and the City have been modified to no longer include LGBTQ references.

Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, has notably described President Vladimir Putin as Voldemort on multiple occasions, including during his appeal hearing against a prison sentence for violating parole conditions.

“The government’s task is to scare you and then persuade you that you are alone,” he said at the hearing in 2021. “Our Voldemort in his palace also wants me to feel cut off,” he added, in an apparent reference to Putin.

Navalny’s appeal was ultimately rejected, and he was sentenced to an additional nine years in prison on embezzlement charges. His attorneys continue to tweet on his behalf, and one tweet from his account this week made another Voldemort reference.

“The Voldemorts of our world, Putin, Lukashenko, Khamenei and Maduro, want us, those who refuse to submit to their power, to feel alone, abandoned, miserable and forgotten before their machines of lies, corruption and dehumanization,” he said, also referencing the leaders of Belarus, Iran, and Venezuela.