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Andrew Morgan, International Director at Independent Content Services, says that Eastern Europe has just as much potential as the USA but content and translation hold the key to unlocking it The global online gambling industry has had its collective head very much turned by the legalisation of sports betting in the USA, with […]
Reading Time: 1 minute Spanish poker website PokerStars.es has decided to shut down the poker room for Russian players. The website has a number of registered users from Russia. However, all the Russian accounts will be disabled soon. The website has not indicated a deadline for the procedure. But it assured that all the existing […]
Reading Time: 1 minute The Russian telecom regulatory authority Roskomnadzor has slapped a penalty of 500,000 rubles ($7,520) on Google for not removing illegal gambling websites from its search results. The Russian authority has also blocked 3000 gambling websites. A majority of blocked websites are “mirrors” of famous brands of bookmaker offices. Also among the […]
Reading Time: 1 minute Russia’s Ministry of Economic Development has decided to abolish the three self-regulatory organisations (SROs) in the country, recent media reports suggest. The SROs represent licensed bookmakers’ interests. The ministry is of the view that these organisations are duplicating functions of the Federal Tax Service (FTS). The First SRO of Russian Bookmakers […]
Reading Time: 1 minute Betting Business Russia has released statistics about visitors betting websites in the country for October. As per the report, 16 betting companies received online bets in Russia in October. The report reveals that 1xstavka.ru received the most number of visits. Betting Business Russia used an online service called SimilarWeb to compile […]
Reading Time: 1 minute Roskomnadzor, the Russian telecom regulator, has filed a case against Google, for its failure to comply with local requirement of blocking illegal Russian gambling domains. Roskomnadzor had asked Google to link with the federal state information system and block the companies and domains blacklisted there. The federal state information system contains […]
Reading Time: 1 minute Russia continues its activities to curb the menace of illegal offshore betting companies. Recently, Yandex, the popular Russian search engine, has excluded links to offshore betting companies from its search results. Yandex excludes websites associated with the bookmakers as well. The search engine is merely complying with the Russian law. According […]
Reading Time: 1 minute The recent decision by the Russian government to extend it is tax-free project to Primorsky Krai augers well for the casinos in the region. The administration of Primorsky Krai has submitted a list of retail facilities that will be part of the Tax-Free project. Tigre de Cristal casino is included in […]
Reading Time: 1 minute A recent survey revealed that more than 50 per cent of Russian punters choose to bet on football matches. Tennis is a distant second in this category. These details were emerged in a survey conducted by Liga Stavok among 1,450 punters. Alexander Egorov, deputy director general of the company, said: “The […]
Reading Time: 1 minute Dmitry Medvedev, the prime minister of Russia, has signed the order to shut down the gambling zone in Azov City in Krasnodar Territory. The gambling zone will closed on 31 December 2018, as per the order. It is the first gambling zone in Russia, started in 2009. The Russian government plans […]
Reading Time: 1 minute Roskomnadzor, the federal executive body of Russia dealing with censorship in media and telecommunications, is going to launch a new online filtering and blocking tool to deal with illegal content on the Internet. The launch is likely to take place this year itself. Alexander Zharov, the head of the department, made […]
Reading Time: 1 minute A new draft bill has been proposed in the Duma, the Russian parliament, which would introduce new rules for gambling license holders. One of the significant rules is that company will lose the license if it is inactive for three straight months. Betting Business Russia also reports that there is proposal […]
Reading Time: 1 minute A research study and analysis conducted by Sberbank, the state-owned banking and financial services company in Russia, has revealed that Russian tourists spend millions of rubles in gambling resorts outside the country. Here are some specific findings. Russians who spend their vacation in Monte Carlo utilise 28.8 per cent of their […]
The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (SKR), together with the K Department of the FSB and the police, has busted a casino ring that has been engaged in illegal gambling business in Moscow. “Investigators came to the conclusion that since May 2016 members of this group have been operating casinos outside the specialised […]
Russia has simplified the rules of gambler’s identification in draft law that was approved in the Russian Parliament. The parliament has adopted the first reading the draft law, which specifically focuses on simplifying the gambling rules. At present, the gambling players have to pass a double identification process: first from the bookmaker, and then from […]
Parimatch, Curacao-based bookmaker popular in Russia, has released a ranking of various regions in the Russian Federation and Ukraine, based on the number of gamblers in each of these regions. The company compiled the list following a detailed study. Not so surprisingly, Moscow topped the list. The majority of Russians who engage in sports betting […]
Roskomnadzor, the telecommunications regulator in Russia, has reportedly blocked the domains of a whopping 14,500 online gambling websites in August. In Russia, apart from the 15 licensed betting operators, there have been countless external operators that offer the sports betting facility through their websites. The surge of activity of such websites has forced the regulator […]
The Tigre de Cristal casino, located in Primorye gaming zone in Russia, is relying more on modest class customers for the majority of revenues than on VIP gamblers. Summit Ascent Holdings, the Hong Kong-listed company that has a majority stake in Tigre de Cristal, reported a 2% increase year-on-year to HK$207.8m (US$26.5m) for the first […]
South Korean company K International Inc. is all set to build a new casino project in Primorye casino development area, the Russian gambling zone. The company is planning to build the facility in an area of 20 hectares located in the gambling zone, in which a casino, a shopping center with a Duty Free zone […]
It has been just over six months into the year, but Malaysian police has arrested more than 20,000 persons in connection with illegal and online gambling. The football World Cup in Russia may have played a part in this large number. In the latest development, the police booked 32 persons under the Prevention of Crime […]