Moscow
Mayor Wants Slots Gone
As reported by the Moscow News:
"Moscow's mayor Yuri Luzhkov has called
on the city government to get rid of 90 percent
of the slot machines, extremely popular among
Muscovites of all ages, RIA-Novosti reported.
"…The
gambling business has flourished in Russia in
the post-Soviet era. Moscow alone has 56 casinos
and 63,000 slot machines.
"…Earlier,
Valery Zhukov, deputy head of the department
for Moscow's economic policy and development,
said the monthly tax rate for slot machines
would be doubled, from $131 to $262, and the
rate for other types of gambling would increase
from $3,498 to $4,373 per unit.
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