"Independent Gazeta": the authorities are advised to recognize the failure and open the casino in Moscow again
A year after the complete ban on casinos in Russia only in Moscow, instead of 500 closed legal gambling establishments, more than 800 illegal ones are valid. Instead of tax revenues, the state today is forced to spend 1 billion per year on the control of compliance with the ban, writes Independent Gazeta . “People played, playing and will play,” said Valery Ivanov, chairman of the Council of the Russian Association for the Development of Gambling Business.