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Russia bans gambling in parts of the country
Calcutta News.Net
Thursday 2nd July, 2009
A new law in Russia will ban gambling in most parts of the country.
The law bans gambling on the internet and at airports and supermarkets, confining the practice to only four regions far from the capital Moscow.
It is feared the ban could put around 300,000 people out of work and push the industry underground.
The law is the initiative of Vladimir Putin, who argued for the specific zones in the Kaliningrad region by the Baltic Sea, the Primorye region in the Far East, Altai in Siberia and an area in the south spanning the Rostov and Krasnodar regions.  Email this story to a friend
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