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The resort towns of Crimea and western Ukraine will receive preferential terms for opening gambling establishments. Lviv, March 31 (Interfax-Ukraine) - The resort towns of Crimea and western Ukraine will receive preferential terms for opening gambling establishments, the vice premier in charge of preparing for and hosting the Euro 2012, Borys Kolesnikov, has said.

"In the resort towns of Crimea and western Ukraine there will be special terms for opening gambling businesses. At the initial stage, I can say that in the resort towns that will be included [on the list of such towns] legal gambling establishments could be opened in three-, four- and five-star hotels, while in other cities only in five-star hotels. Preferential terms will be determined, and I wouldn't like to speak about them," Kolesnikov said at a briefing in Lviv on Tuesday.

According to the vice premier, the state would offer assistance to the hotel business in receiving credits.

"The hotel business, which has a stainless credit history, can address the government of Ukraine for assistance in receiving credits for new [hotels] via Ukreximbank and Oschadbank," he said.