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Where Does Russian Gambling Stand?

Russia has really hit the international media hard in the past year because of new land gambling policies that have now created a huge hole in the Russian gambling industry that is rapidly being filled by illegal online casino gambling operations. The Russian government is really waging a strong campaign against gambling within the nation’s major cities, but considering the long history of gambling in cities like Moscow and other major cities, it’s no wonder that the Russian citizens are desperate to fill the hole that gambling bans have created. Essentially, every single previously legal land gambling venue (from casinos to poker parlors) have been banned from the cities and moved to incredibly remote regions of Russia.

As the land gambling sites evacuated, the Russian government assumed that this would really fix the majority of the gambling behavior that was rampant. It didn’t. Although the land gambling venues mostly complied with the government’s mandates, many of the small gambling parlors have not converted into “internet cafes” offering access to the online casinos or even lottery and instant betting games.

It’s really a surprise that the Russian government didn’t better anticipate the rise of the online casino gambling industry in the wake of the land gambling ban – especially in light of the ongoing offshore gambling battles occurring the United States. Because Russia does not allow legalized and licensed internet gambling, all of the sites offering services to Russians are offshore gaming sites – that means they are harder to catch and stop and will become more of a nuisance until the Russian government passes new laws.