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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20050703
Author:Andrew Osborn in Moscow

The Kremlin has declared war on a vice that has bewitched and impoverished Russians for centuries, ensnaring those from Fyodor Dostoevsky to modern- day Moscow cab drivers and babushkas: gambling.

Though officials say that the 'plague' has spread across Russia since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, it is in Moscow, known as the Las Vegas of the East, where they believe the problem is most acute.

The capital's powerful Mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, said recently that the situation had become untenable, describing Moscow's gambling addiction as 'unbridled debauchery and moral abasement'. His words ...

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