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10 January 2007
Kazakhstan Tackles Gambling
Craze
Kazakhstan
has taken drastic steps to fight the nation's gambling craze
by ordering all gambling halls and Casinos
to move to just two lakeside towns.
The government measure
took effect on 1 January 2007, although construction is far
from finished in both towns.
The new resorts - outside
the main cities of Almaty and Astana - have been dubbed the
Las
Vegas of Central
Asia.
There seems to be plenty
of discontent among the country's gamblers, but it is not
expressed openly.
President Nursultan
Nazarbayev is behind the idea, and in Kazakhstan nobody
argues with him.
Kazakhstan's new oil
wealth has brought along a desire to spend - and a major
gambling boom.
From poorly-lit amusement
arcades to high-class casinos, there are more than 2,000
gambling halls in the country.
That is almost as many as
in the United
States, although
Kazakhstan's population is about 20 times
smaller.
But now President
Nazarbayev wants to clean up Kazakhstan's gambling
industry.
As of January, all of the
country's casinos, roulette tables, bookmakers and amusement
arcades had to pack up to operate in the new
sites.
Kazakhstan's finance
minister says the move will help to fight the harmful
effects of what she called the country's gambling
mania.
A similar legislation -
suggesting moving all casinos to designated towns - was
recently introduced in Russia.
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