Slot Machines Eliminated in Russia 

The Duma are looking to regulate slot machines and gambling in the country, and have taken steps to crack down on the practice. Russia has a real problem with slot machines and slot machine gambling in their country and it has all but completely taken them over.  

The Moscow Serbsky Psychiatry Institute has come up with research that says slot macines and gambling has become an obsession with more than 2,000,000 Russians. Moscow alone has 330,000 gambling addicts, and it also has more slot machines than any other area. If you own just one slot machine, you can count on roughly $10,000 per month in slot machine revenue. Slot machines and gambling have brought in $260 million in revenue according to tax returns. 

There are those that are dead set against the slot machines and the gambling that has become so prevalent in the country. State Duma member Vladimir Medinsky actually drafted one of the versions of legislature, and he suggested that concrete walls topped with barbed wire should be built around the slot machine parlors and casinos so as to keep the older and younger members of their society out of the slot machine halls.

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