Development of gambling in modern Russia

Published as an advertisement The "golden age" of roulette and card games for money in Russia lasted several centuries, until the 1917 revolution. Over the next few years, gambling houses were closed.

If you think that there were no gambling in the USSR, then you are mistaken. Yes, the ruling party recognized monetary entertainment as a manifestation of bourgeois propaganda, but at the same time offered its citizens an alternative - various lotteries. For many decades, casinos in Russia disappeared.

In the last years of the Soviet Union, in 1989, the first gambling houses, fashionable establishments with a restaurant or a variety show appeared in several republics at once - establishments that before that Soviet citizens had only seen in foreign films. Despite the fact that at first only a narrow circle of the elite had access to such casinos, already in 1993 salons with slot machines and roulettes began to appear everywhere.

Thousands of establishments that called themselves casinos were small rooms where popular games were installed - mostly machines that accurately controlled the return percentage. There was no talk of any state control or certification - the casino earned even more than usual from its visitors.

The next milestone in the development of the gambling business was the opening of an online casino in the mid-90s, first on the English-language Internet, and then in our country. Virtual roulettes, along with thousands of offline clubs, coexisted until 2009, when gambling and its organizers fell into disgrace - the state decided to ban a business that not only did not pay taxes, but also frankly profited from the population.

In Russia, they agreed to leave only a few zones where games will be allowed and controlled - a zone in Altai, in the Kaliningrad region, in Primorye and on the Azov coast. The latter, by the way, has already successfully closed after several years of operation.

Public casinos and clubs with slot machines were replaced by illegal and semi-legal establishments that periodically closed and opened again. Gambling was offered to the population under the guise of Internet clubs and machines with supposedly state lotteries.

After the tightening of responsibility for the organization of games for money up to criminal, as well as the active fight against gambling establishments by the prosecutor's office, most of the gambling establishments switched to an online format or closed altogether.

software is installed Today you can find a casino in the so-called clubs where the Globalslots , which imitates slot machines. However, the question of the legality of such institutions and the responsibility of their organizers remains open.