Mamut will bring a large foreign bookmaker to the Russian market

The owner of Rambler & CO Alexander Mamut will launch a bookmaker online platform Bwin.ru in Russia in partnership with the same Austrian gambling company. This was written by the newspaper Kommersant with reference to the executive director of the development of Rambler & CO Dmitry Sergeyev.

The platform will work in Russia under the license of Bwin.party. At the same time, the company itself will provide only a technological platform and a brand. The Russian side will invest about € 10 million a year in the project for several years.

It is planned that the site along with the mobile application will be launched in a few months. According to LiveSport.ru, the online platform may begin to accept bets in Russia to the Confederations Cup, which will be held in the summer of 2017. It is expected that the platform will begin to make a profit three years after the launch.

Sergeev said that visitors to Lenta.ru, Gazeta.ru with their sports sections, Championship.com and Rambler. Sport will become the main traffic generators to the new site. He emphasized that this is the first time that a large foreign bookmaker legally enters the Russian market.

Sergeev’s words were confirmed by the co -founder of the “Betting League” Yuri Krasovsky. He said that the legal market for online starts in Russia appeared less than a year ago. The first website launched such a site was the company “Betting League”.