Media commentators have justified the restrictive legislation in terms of protecting the youth from gambling problems, reducing 👍 social costs of problem gambling, breaking the ties between legal gambling and organized crime, protecting the lower socioeconomic groups from 👍 gambling, safeguarding the Russian identity, but ...

In 2009, gambling was banned almost everywhere in Russia. The only exceptions are four specific arranged zones, namely 👍 "Altai Palace" in the Altai Republic, "Sobranie" in Kaliningrad, "Casino Sochi" in Krasnaya Polyana near Sochi and "Shambala" and "Tigre 👍 de Cristal" in Artyom near Vladivostok.