Snake Eyes in Moscow
When then-President Vladimir Putin vowed to clean up vice-riddled Moscow, it’s hard to imagine the city’s corporate and home-grown gambling bosses took him too seriously. But this past week current President and Putin pal, Dmitry Medvedev, made good on that promise.
Casinos were shuttered all over Russia. If they wished, the casino operators would be allowed to relocate their gambling halls and slot parlors to distant outlying areas – places so far from Moscow the average Russian couldn’t find them with a map and two tanks of gas.
