Russian Parliament Votes to Reduce Slot Machines

The Federation Council, Russia’s upper chamber of their Parliament, voted to close casinos and slot machine halls in the majority of the country. Many were shocked as to the unanimous vote on closing down the casinos and slot machines, as it passed 141-0 with two abstentions.

The bill had already won the approval of the lower house to close the casinos and shut down the slot machine parlors, but some held out hope that the upper house would not pass it. The bill states that there will be four zones where legal slot machines and gambling can be located, they are: the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad, the southern Krasnodar/Rostov area, the Siberian region of Altai and in the Primorsky region on the Pacific coast.

Any other casino or slot machines in the country will be illegal and must close their doors by July 1, 2009. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, slot machines and casinos experiences a major growth, and the Russian Government is trying to basically put a lid on that growth.

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