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Online Casino Use Rises in Russia

The Russian government is seriously concerned that the government may have acted a bit hastily with the introduction of gambling banning legislation that shut down land casinos and betting parlors throughout all of the major cities. The legislation opened up for remote areas of the country where the land gambling establishments were able to reopen shop and offer land gambling activities but the current convoluted processing of licenses as meant that many gambling companies are instead looking toward new technologies as a way to open up new revenue streams within the Russian market.

The Deputy Mayor in Moscow, Sergei Baidakov, may have hit the issue right on the head with his observation that the current influx of online casinos targeting the market and an increase in instant lottery ticket sales are the “by-product of imperfect legislation." Russia implemented the new bans on land gambling earlier this year and it didn’t take the previous land gambling establishments to find ways to still stay active in the gambling industry and continue generating revenue – now though the government isn’t getting a very big cut of those gambling revenues.

In addition to the popularity of instant lottery sales that are taking place at the lottery machines that have cropped up all over the country, internet cafes are now offering Russians access to the online casino gambling sites as a way to still enjoy gambling as a pastime while circumventing the Russian government’s ban on land gambling in the country. Land gambling is still entirely illegal outside of the designated areas and the major cities are doing all that they can to seek out illegal gambling and slots halls and shut down the establishments while also seizing the machines. The new trend toward online technologies though is a whole other issue that is not yet addressed by Russian legislation.