Can war make a country legalize gambling

[DrBeer]

The simple conclusion is that, in this example, legalizing casinos and the gambling business will not yield any noticeable results, since additional fees and taxes can only be collected if “the law is signed in the morning and by lunchtime there are casinos on every corner across the country.” But there is a second problem: the solvent population or TOURISTS who will bring money to the casinos. As far as I can tell from the news, the population has become significantly poorer and is concerned with saving money on food, so in this situation, they will clearly not be interested in casino games. Will RICH tourists come to Russia? Well, that's the stuff of fantasy...

So what's the reality? Less than a few weeks have passed since this idea was first voiced, and now a decision has been made in one Russian region.

""The Last Straw of Public Patience": Altai Authorities Approved the Creation of a Gambling Zone Despite Thousands of Resident Signatures

The United Russia-controlled Altai Republic Parliament approved the creation of a gambling zone in the region. Governor Andrei Turchak supported the casino near the Manzherok resort, controlled by Sberbank. Meanwhile, local activists, community leaders, and politicians collected thousands of signatures against it.

Deputies approved the federal bill on a gambling zone in Altai. The State Duma will soon adopt it.

The decision coincided with a multi-billion-dollar government contract in the Altai Mountains, which was won by a company associated with Arkady Rotenberg, SibExpress has learned."


As I've written before, the budget deficit is so severe that such decisions will be made with lightning speed. This is just the beginning. Now other regions will follow suit. Will this save the economy? No, it won't. The volume is nowhere near what's needed.

That is, developing its own economy, science, production, technology, conducting mutually beneficial trade or economic collaborations, improving the standard of living of its population, improving the health of its population, creating projects that guarantee future generations a comfortable and high-quality life—no, this is not for Russia, none of this has any value.
 What is valuable to them is power, terror, and violence, destroying the lives of others, and then trying to squeeze the last money out of the pockets of the remnants of their population to wage war against a small country in order to preserve their power. It feels like a “bad fairy tale,” but unfortunately, this is our reality.

[Fortify]

Online gambling has been illegal in Russia since 2009, but because of the growing budget deficit brought by on going war against Ukraine, officials are proposing to legalize online gambling.

But even if online gambling is illegal, the industry still made a $39 billion profit; just imagine the profit from taxes it would make if gambling were legal.

What do you think, will Putin allow the legalization of gambling just to sustain the economy, and sustain the war against Ukraine

In an effort to bolster state revenues amid a growing budget deficit, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has proposed the legalization of online casinos. The plan, presented to President Vladimir Putin, aims to provide a new source of income to offset the rising costs of the war against Ukraine. Siluanov’s suggestion, reported by Kommersant, aims to draw illegal online gamblers into the legal market, while also introducing stringent safeguards to curb addiction.

Sounds like a desperate leader who is both trying to raise funds from the meager amount of currency their citizens have left in circulation and also leading those same people to desperation which can of course be answered by joining the army to become part of the endless meat shields that are sent to die for him. If Russia was in any way normal it would have been legal before the war and people would have been free to spend their money on this form of entertainment. Most countries would find more useful things to do during a war that they are inflicting for no reason against their neighbor and now the death toll is growing exponentially I guess that any kind of distraction so there is no uprising against the Russian government is the aim.

[fruktik]

That is, developing its own economy, science, production, technology, conducting mutually beneficial trade or economic collaborations, improving the standard of living of its population, improving the health of its population, creating projects that guarantee future generations a comfortable and high-quality life—no, this is not for Russia, none of this has any value.
 What is valuable to them is power, terror, and violence, destroying the lives of others, and then trying to squeeze the last money out of the pockets of the remnants of their population to wage war against a small country in order to preserve their power. It feels like a “bad fairy tale,” but unfortunately, this is our reality.

If you look at the entire history of Russia, you won't find a single period when anything good was done for the people. The government did nothing but rob and terrorize the people. That's where its role ended.

And what about now? The time has come when money is desperately needed to maintain and hold on to power. Legalizing casinos will be the beginning. They'll squeeze every last drop out of this sector. Just give it free rein.