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Casinos into libraries

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Coming on the heels of the anti-casino archive, this could be the coolest story ever. From Radio Free Europe: Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov has called on the city’s gambling halls to eventually be turned into libraries. “More than 2,000 gaming halls were opened in a short time in Moscow and we are now actively closing […]

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Russian casinos iced

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Russia’s casino industry has seen explosive growth in the past few years, but things are changing. From the Miami Herald: Garish or goofy or grim, Russia’s casinos and slot-machine halls are some of the most vivid testimony to communism’s collapse. But, under legislation approved Wednesday by Russia’s lower house of parliament, the $6 billion industry

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