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Time magazine: All bets are off as Ukraine, Russia ban gambling

Jul 4, 2009 at 06:03

James Marson writes from Kyiv: Supporters of Ukraine's new law have little sympathy for the crippling effect it will have on the industry. "Gambling has become an epidemic that can be compared with AIDS and tuberculosis," says the law's author, Valeriy Pysarenko, a parliamentary deputy from Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's party. "It is destroying the Ukrainian nation on a moral level."

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