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 Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 7:30 am Post subject: Cracking down on gambling in Russia.. |
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By Richard Galpin
BBC News, Russia
The Russian parliament has passed a law that will force all casinos to close down over the next two years
A rapid growth in gambling has prompted Russia to ban all casinos and gaming halls from its major towns and cities.
From Tolstoy to Dostoevsky, Russia's long love-affair with gambling is well documented in the country's greatest works of literature.
So it should not come as a great surprise that it is once again boom-time for the gambling industry here, after being banned for most of the last century by the communists.
Some parts of Moscow now bear more resemblance to Las Vegas than the heart of a nation which once provided the most powerful alternative to Western capitalism
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6303223.stm |
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