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Kyiv, July 18 (Interfax-Ukraine) - The law banning gambling business in Ukraine shall apply to Internet casinos, as well, First Vice-Premier Oleksandr Turchynov has said.

“Internet casinos are a form of gambling business, and as the law doesn’t specify the form of gambling, such organizations should be also closed,” he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Friday.

At the same time, Turchynov stressed that the term of licenses on gambling businesses’ operation issued earlier in Ukraine has already expired, and this licenses cannon be valid any more.

“Many hope, though, that they will be able to resume operation in fall,” he said.