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MARKET REPORT INTERVIEW
www.euroslot-online.com
The Kazakhstan Connection
Interview with Lyubov Loginova, Chairman of Alsart’s
Board of Directors
Cosmopolitan Russia
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n January 2007, the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, signed the cities to the gaming zones.
the law called “On introducing amendments and additions in some of the A number of gaming venues was closed, some of them were turned into
legislative bills of Republic of Kazakhstan on gaming business” and “On gambling discos, cafes and restaurants, and a lot of gaming venues went underground. As a
business”, which defines “legal foundations for organizing gaming business in result, official information on gambling venues disappeared from the official
Kazakhstan”. According to the new law activities of all the gambling venues in the statistics: they do not have official web sites, there is no information about them
territory of Kazakhstan is strictly regulated and allowed only in two gaming zones: neither in events guides, nor in search engines.
Kapchagai and Schuchinsk. According to the official statistics as of early November 2008 ten licences were
E: How many gaming venues were in Kazakhstan before the law came into force? issued for betting shops, four licences for totalizators, and one for casinos!
LL: In 2007, the Kazakh gambling market was presented by 132 casinos, over E: How many casinos operate legally today?
2000 slot shops, 53 betting shops and one totalizator. LL: On October 1, 2008 the first and so far the only legal casino, Flamingo,
E: What are the statistics of the current Kazakh gambling market? was opened. By November 11, 2008 the second legal Kazakh casino Moulin Rouge
LL: At the moment it is impossible to give any statistics. The fact is that after was supposed to be opened in the city of Kapchagai. But it does not operate at
the law came into force operators were given only three months to move out from the moment and there is no any additional information on it.
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