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WAAG: Russia: The People

The land and online casino gambling legislation in Russia has gained a lot of critics over the past year as the full impact of the controversial legislation comes to light. On a broad level the banning of land and online casinos from Russia will have a dramatic impact on the amount of revenue coming into the Russian government to fund social programs. But on a much deeper note, Valdimir Putin’s 2006 gambling legislation (which just came into full effect in July 2009) has deeply impacted the lives of millions of Russians who have worked within the Russian land casino gambling industry for decades. Russia implemented the land gambling ban in July of this year and within just a matter of days hundreds of thousands of Russians found themselves unemployed in an uncertain economy.

The online casinos have been banned in Russia for several years now and there was actually very little of a viable market for the gambling sites because of the strong growth of the land gambling industry. Land gambling venues were incredibly popular and the land venues ranged from hole-in-the wall slot parlors to majorly ritzy casinos. The lucrative gambling industry provided Russians with a widely varied range of unskilled and skilled jobs, with countless numbers of specialty jobs and other key employment opportunities that provided financial support for Russians working at the land casino venues.

With the land venues now closed and the online casinos picking up the slack, there are simply no gambling related jobs left in Russia. Those who were skilled in gambling industry specific jobs no longer have opportunities for high paying. Even if the recently unemployed Russians were willing to move to the remote legal gambling zones it will be several years before any of the major gambling companies reopen and reestablish.