Casinos only will remain
Be reminded that the initial draft of the law proposed by the regional administration was actually a copy of the federal law pursuant to which from July 1st there shall remain only larger gambling facilities in the country. The regional administration explained the decision (not to ban gaming business completely) by their reluctance to deprive local budgets of revenues brought in by gamin tax. However, at the Duma session the events took an unexpected turn: the deputies were proposed (by their own colleagues) two conflicting amendments. According to the first one, gaming business was to be completely banned from January 1st the following year, according to the other one – only casinos were to be left in the region. As a result, with a small outvote, the people`s elects stood “for casinos”.
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