Casinos in most of Russia are about the close. From BBC News:
Gamblers in Moscow and other major Russian cities are placing their last bets ahead of a government ban on casinos and gaming halls.
A new law comes into effect at midnight, confining gambling to four regions far from the capital.
It bans gambling on the internet and at airports, supermarkets and other sites.
But critics say the move will leave more than 300,000 people without jobs and push the industry underground, amid a continuing economic crisis in Russia.
Unrealistic idea
The law was passed by the Russian parliament in 2006 and was the initiative of the then President Vladimir Putin, who is now serving as prime minister.
From 1 July, Russian gamblers will be restricted to specific zones in the Kaliningrad region by the Baltic Sea, the Primorye region in the Far East, Altai in Siberia and an area in the south spanning the Rostov and Krasnodar regions.
The dedicated gambling zones require massive investment, and critics argue that they are far from ready.
This might be the biggest rollback of a legal (though under-regulated) national gambling industry yet.