Moscow - Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into bill a law, which sets up gambling zones in Crimea and Sochi.
The document was published on the official legal information portal.
The law “On the Adjustment of the Federal Law on State Regulation of
Gambling Activity and Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian
Federation” stipulates the creation of gambling zones in the Altai
territory, the Krasnodar territory, the Primorsky territory and the
Kaliningrad region. Crimea is a new addition.
“Executive authorities of the republic shall set the limits of the gambling zone in the Republic of Crimea,” it said.
The document stated that gambling could be organized by legal
entities engaged in gambling activity in the gambling zone on land plots
assigned for the deployment of federal Olympic facilities whose
financing and construction was not done at the expense of the budget or
Olympstroy funds.
The limits of the gambling zone on the aforesaid lands in the
Krasnodar territory shall be set by the Russian government with due
account of the propositions the Krasnodar territorial authorities will
make to the government.
