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- Let losers weep 23.01.2007
- The federal law “On state regulation of activities involved in gambling organization and arrangement” has been long awaited by both gambling operators and local officials.
- From July 1st, 2007, gaming business in Krasnoyarsk region will be completely banned 23.01.2007
- Deputies of Krasnoyarsk region Legislative Assembly intend to completely ban operations of all gambling facilities, with no exceptions, within the region from July 1st, 2007.
- Primorie will allot Cherepakha in the bay of Muravjinaya for casinos 22.01.2007
- Governor of Primorie region, Sergey Darkin allotted Cherepakha Cape in the area of the Muravjinaya bay for gaming zone construction, “Interfax” informs.
- Russian e-casinos moved to .com domain 20.01.2007
- Since the year started some Internet payment systems have refused to maintain payments for e-casinos operating in Russia.
- By the middle of March, all Moscow gambling facilities will have been inventoried 18.01.2007
- The complete inventory of Moscow gambling facilities will have been accomplished by March 15th, 2007. It was announced on Thursday by Joseph Ordjonikidze, Deputy Mayor on International and External Economic Links in the government of Moscow, according to “Interfax” IA.
- Internet casinos relocated to Europe 17.01.2007
- Since the year began, some Internet payment systems have refused to process transactions of Russia-based Interned casinos. Such actions result from the legislative prohibition of online gambling effective from January 1st. However, market participants found a way to keep their business going by relocating it from RuNet to the .com area.
- In Saratov, leasing land for gaming business purposes will cost hundredfold 16.01.2007
- The City Duma of Saratov set basic rates for rent and terms for rent payment for land plots in Saratov for the year 2007, in compliance with the RF Land Code and the Charter of Saratov, they informed “Rosbalt” in the City Duma press service.
- The necessity of preventing measures against gambling addiction will be legally formalized in Moscow 15.01.2007
- The capital authorities are preparing a legislation on preventive measures against gambling addiction; they will submit it for the Moscow City Duma deputies’ consideration, “Interfax” was informed on Friday by Vladimir Platonov, the City Duma Chairman.
- In Astrakhan region, gambling facilities will be in entertainment centres only 12.01.2007
- According to the Astrakhan region legislation “On amending the Astrakhan region law “On placing gambling facilities within the territory of Astrakhan region”, passed on December 28th, 2006, which provides for the limitation of activities involved in gambling organization and arrangement in the region, from the beginning of 2007 such activities will be allowed only in gambling institutions placed in entertainment complexes functioning as of the date the law comes into effect.
- Gambling Going to Zones 11.01.2007
- At the end of the last year, the deputies finally made their minds on where to evict the notorious one-armed bandits.
- Land prices zoom in the area of Altay gaming zone 11.01.2007
- In Solonovka, a village in Altay, which if in the area of the gaming and resort zone-to-be, there is a dramatic rise in prices for houses and land plots, according to the “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”.
- V. Putin signed the gaming business law 10.01.2007
- On December 29th, Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, signed the federal law “On state regulation of activities involved in gambling organization and arrangement and on amending some of the RF legislative regulations”, passed by the State Duma on December 20th, 2006, and approved by the Federation Council on December 27th, 2006.
- Russian president Putin signed new casino bill into law 01.01.2007
- Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill into law December 30, which regulates the activities of casinos and envisages the creation of four special gambling zones. The law also outlaws online gambling and online poker, and sets the minimum gambling age of 18 years.
- Putin signs gambling bill sharply limiting casinos, slot machines in Russia 30.12.2006
- President Vladimir Putin signed a law Saturday that will close casinos and slot-machine halls across most of the country in a few years, forcing the establishments that have become a garish feature of the new Russian landscape into a limited number of legal gambling zones.
- The “one-armed” deported to the provinces 29.12.2006
- The opposition of Russian authorities and gaming operators ended with a rout of the letter. The sentence to casino and slot machine parlour owners was announced just before the New Year, by the State Duma deputies who in three readings adopted the law under which from 2009 all casinos and slot machine parlours will be moved to four reservations set up in the nether land far from residential areas.
- Upper House passes bill on gambling zones in Russia 28.12.2006
- The Federation Council voted 132-0 with two abstentions in favor of approving a bill to regulate the country’s gambling business.
- The requirements for gaming business in Moscow region have been made even tougher 28.12.2006
- At the session of Moscow regional Duma on December 27th they passed the amendments to the law toughening the requirements to gaming business operating in Moscow region.
- Breaking the rules of locating gambling facilities in Moscow region will be penalized 26.12.2006
- Moscow Regional Duma, at its session on December 20th, established measures of administrative liability for breaking the procedure of locating gambling facilities within the terrotiry of the region, a correspondent of IA REGNUM informs.
- Tkachev chose a place for the gaming zone on the coast of the Azov Sea, a new town of 40-50 thousand inhabitants will appear there 26.12.2006
- Governor of Krasnodar Region, Alexander Tkachev, estimates that a new town of 40-50 thousand inhabitants will appear on the coast of the Azov Sea, and it will be a new gaming zone. "The site has already been chosen. For the present it is a deserted place on the coast of the Azov Sea,” Tkachev told to an ITAR-TASS correspondent. He said that now the Azov coast is not lived-in, not adapted for living, without any infrastructure.
- Regions may lack revenues from gaming business 26.12.2006
- The issue of regions laking revenues is still open, as Sergey Tchizhov, a State Duma deputy, informed the correspondent.
- Russian law to restrict casinos 26.12.2006
- Casinos will have to quit Russian cities by July 2009
- Vegas in Russia’s wilderness? Place your bets 21.12.2006
- Garish or goofy or grim, Russia’s casinos and slot-machine halls are some of the most vivid testimony to communism’s collapse.
- Russian casinos iced 21.12.2006
- Russia’s casino industry has seen explosive growth in the past few years, but things are changing.
- Moscow City Duma determined how many and which gambling facilities will be left in the capital 21.12.2006
- Moscow State Duma toughened the requirements for locating gambling facilities in the capital, as a result of which their number in 2007 will be reduced to 160-170. The city parliament deputies unanimously voted in three readings for the amendments in the law “On placing gaming business locations within the territory of Moscow.
- The State Duma adopted the law on state regulation of gaming business 20.12.2006
- At its plenary session on Wednesday the State Duma in the third reading adopted the law “On state regulation of activities involved in gambling organization and arrangement” providing the legal grounds of gaming business regulation.
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