Judging by newspaper stories ...

Judging from newspaper stories, but in Moscow alone there are at least 30,000 slot machines, which regularly attracts over 500,000 people. At a press conference the chief psychiatrist Russian Ministry of Health, Head of Rehabilitation and Rehabilitation stress disorder Vladimir Voloshin said that he estimated about 300 thousands of Muscovites are suffering psychological dependence on the slot machines. For example, the drug suffers from 150,000 people in the country. According to foreign experts from the country's population suffer from various degrees of gambling from 1,3 to 1,5%. According to the American Association for the problems of gambling business, approximately 14% of Russia's population has ever tried their luck at a slot machine. One-tenth of that number fall under the category of pathological gamblers. According to rough estimates, they leave about 40 percent of its budget in gambling establishments. At the same time in 2003 at National Science Centre (NSC) Addiction Russian Ministry of Health sought the advice of only 200 people, including a medical-rehabilitation program, only 50 remained affiliated with pronounced signs of Gamblers. In Russia there are 44,000 slot machines and that number is growing exponentially. Moscow has concentrated more than half of all slot machines - 25 000. Also in Russia, more than 350 casinos, two dozen desks sweepstakes, just over 200 cash registers bookmakers, approximately 44,000 slot machines, several all-Russian lottery. Gambling at the races and the races historically traditional for Russia in this sphere of gambling there is rapid growth. The same picture spread of gambling business and its growth can be observed in all major cities of Russia: St. Petersburg, Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Rostov on Don, and other large industrial cities. Other best play "machines" regions - the Stavropol and Krasnodar, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Volgograd, Leningrad, Perm and Novosibirsk region, Udmurtia, Tatarstan and Bashkortostan. Vladimir Putin made an unforgivable mistake, he signed a decree on the transfer of licensing gambling Sports Committee, which began selling the licenses. Since gambling was released "on free bread," as Gene from a bottle. For a short time gambling scored by 3 billion a year and now back to his stick will be very difficult. According to the Ministry of Taxes and Levies of Russia, the end of 1998 there were just over 800 gaming halls (12,5 thousand units), in 2000 their number exceeded 2100 (32,000 machines), and by the summer of 2001 in the country was officially installed 35,000 machines. Today in Russia, only gambling more than 60 thousand. Halls with slot machines are one of more than 60%. By Russian standards, the average percentage of cash prizes should not be below 75% in favor of playing.