Game is a Business

I don't want to talk here about bookmakers or bets (that would be the subject for another article). It's just that Russian people often use their skills, whatever they are, to make business out of them. And when you're good at chess, no big deal, you propose a game for 50 RUR. Hope this guy is not a sublime genious and you can play more than 30''. Or perhaps, he would have the pity to leave your King alive for 5 minutes at least. Just to have a feeling of a good deal.

(Photo: Dirrty Frank, on Nikitsky Boulevard, trying to earn money with PPT presentations)

Casino not so Royale

Lights shut off forever...Arbat street is dead. And with that street, all gambling industry in Moscow is in mourn. Starting 1st of July (tomorrow actually), roulette tables and other slot machines will be banned in Moscow. The city that was famous to gather more casinos and entertainment centers than in entire Europe is going to change dramatically. No limelight anymore. Only billboards saying 'Closed Casino' or 'For Rent'.

The government has decided to authorize gambling in only 4 zones in Russia: Azov Sea Region, Kaliningrad, Altai Region and Vladivostok...not easy to waste your money after a drinking party in the center of Moscow. Apart of threatening more than 10.000 jobs in tghe industry in Moscow, that decision is the result of a political debate. Obviously, most of the casinos are handled by Georgian families and businessmen and the current political situation did not help to save the business.

Well, now, we will have a good reason to save a bit of more money.

(Photos: Dirrty Frank, missing already the moscovite 'Broadway')