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This Book looks at the Law and the Policy on Betting and Sport in many countries around the world—sport is a global phenomenon—providing a very useful and valuable comparative survey on a subject that is so vital to safeguarding and preserving the integrity of those sports in which betting is legally allowed. The country reports show how sports-related betting is organized in the country concerned, also from a historical and policy perspective (national Lotteries Act; state run/state licensed lotteries and/or private operators; how the licensing system for public operators works; state supervisory mechanisms, etc.), and contain a treatment of the national case-law.
M.A. Prokopets—Head Legal Counsel, YUST Law Firm, Moscow, specialized in sports law.
D.I. Rogachev—Candidate of Legal Science, Lecturer and Deputy Director, Law Studies Institute, Moscow State Law Academy, legal consultant to the Russian Football Union (RFU) and legal adviser to the Minister for Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy of the Russian Federation.
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26.01.1996.
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‘IGROVOI VID—SPORTU’ in Profil, No. 2, 2006.
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This is more than 80% of the entire sports budget of the USSR. For a period of 20 years the country filled out cards, selecting 6 numbers out of 49 (each number was designated with a different type of sport). The winning combination was determined by a ‘logotron.’ Since 1974, the drawings were broadcast on television. Sportloto had a drawing of 30 million. With a ticket price of 30 kopecks, the weekly turnover of the lottery reached 9 million roubles. Even if half of the turnover went on winnings, this was a financial result that not only modern Russian, but also foreign lottery organizers can only dream of.
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K.A. Katkov. Taxation of the gambling business. Abstract of dissertation in pursuit of academic title of candidate of economic science. Saratov, 2008, 10 p.
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K.A. Katkov. Taxation of the gambling business. Abstract of dissertation in pursuit of academic title of candidate of economic science. Saratov 2008, p. 10.
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14,000,000 Euros. At the moment of writing this article, the Euro exchange rate was 1 Euro = 43 roubles. Therefore, all sums in Euros will be shown based on this rate.
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2,300,000 Euros.
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In connection with the established restrictions on the size of net assets, a new business even appeared: companies possessing the necessary volume of net assets, in exchange for certain monthly payments, give smaller companies the opportunity to function.
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E.I. Spektor. ‘Advokat’, 2007, No. 2. Problems in the implementation of the Law on state regulation of activities in the organization and execution of games of chance. Long live the underground?
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According to Article 15 of the federal law, dated December 29, 2006, No. 244-FZ, ‘On state regulation of activities in the organization and execution of games of chance and on the introduction of amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation’, bookmakers and sweepstakes may be located only in buildings, structures and installations which qualify as capital construction facilities.
Bookmakers and sweepstakes may not be located in:
(1) residential buildings, facilities of which the construction is not yet complete, in temporary structures, in kiosks, under awnings or in any other similar structures;
(2) in buildings, structures, installations, in which there are children’s, educational, medical or sanatorium and resort establishments;
(3) in the buildings, structures and installations of road service stations and terminals, railroad stations, river transportation stations, river ports, airports or at the stations and stops of any form of public transport (common-use transport) providing urban and suburban linkages;
(4) on the premises, in which activities are performed, that are not connected with the organization and execution of games of chance or rendering services related to games of chance;
(5) in buildings, structures or installations that are placed in state or municipal ownership, and in which federal agencies of state authority, agencies of state authority of constituent members of the Russian Federation, agencies of local self-government, state or municipal establishments or unitary enterprises are located;
(6) in buildings, structures and installations, in which there are hieratic or religious organizations.
Bookmakers and sweepstakes may also not be located in green areas, where any of the above facilities are also located. Additional requirements for bookmakers and sweepstakes may be established by the government of the Russian Federation.
It is noteworthy that the restriction, established by Article 16 of the federal law dated 29/12/2006, No. 244-FZ, stating that a gaming establishment may not be located in buildings, structures or installations of physical culture, therapeutic or sporting establishments, does not extend to sweepstakes and bookmakers.
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581 Euros.
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2,900 Euros.
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For example, in Moscow the highest stake per sweepstake machine or bookmakers machine is 125,000 roubles; in Irkutsk Oblast, the maximum is 50,000 roubles, and in the Republic of Tatarstan, 75,000 roubles.
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581 Euros.
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Letter from FAS, dated 26 December 2005, No. AK/19277, On advertising of games of chance and gaming establishments.
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Letter from FAS, dated 26 December 2005, No. AK/19277, On advertising of games of chance and gaming establishments.
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Letter of the Ministry of Finance, dated 12 October 2006, No. 03-06-05-03/35.
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At the current time in Russia, there are five types of large drawn lotteries. There are more than 150 types of non-drawn or ‘instant’ lotteries.
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Order of the Prime Minister of the Government of Moscow, dated 16/2/1996, No. 138-RP.
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According to the Order of the Government of the Russian Federation, dated 5/7/2004, No. 338, On measures to implement the law ‘On lotteries’, this same body established the Federal Tax Service.
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“Comments to the Federal Law of 11 November 2003, No. 138-FZ,″ On lotteries (by article) (T.G. Zhdanovich and O.A. Shevchenko).
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625,500,000 Euros.
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According to the head of Rossport, Vyachaslav Fetisov, one of the conditions of the tender, as a result of which the lottery operator was selected, was the obligation to transfer 120,000,000 USD within the first year of conducting the lottery. http://www.allsport.ru/index.php?id=19019.
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Prokopets, M.A., Rogachev, D.I. (2011). Lotteries, Bookmakers and Sweepstakes in Russia. In: Anderson, P., Blackshaw, I., Siekmann, R., Soek, J. (eds) Sports Betting: Law and Policy. ASSER International Sports Law Series. T.M.C. Asser Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-6704-799-9_40
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