Compliance Updates

Russia extends battle against offshore betting

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7 years ago

November 12, 2018

Niji Narayan

Russia extends battle against offshore betting

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Russia continues its activities to curb the menace of illegal offshore betting companies. Recently, Yandex, the popular Russian search engine, has excluded links to offshore betting companies from its search results. Yandex excludes websites associated with the bookmakers as well.

The search engine is merely complying with the Russian law. According to the relevant portion of the law, titled “On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection”, search engines, including Yandex, do not have the right to show Russian users links to resources included in the unified register of prohibited information of Roskomnadzor, the Russian mass media and telecommunications regulator.

Roskomnadzor has already barred more than 10000 domains so far.

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Niji Narayan

Niji Narayan has been in the writing industry for well over a decade or so. He prides himself as one of the few survivors left in the world who have actually mastered the impossible art of copy editing. Niji graduated in Physics and obtained his Master’s degree in Communication and Journalism. He has always interested in sports writing and travel writing. He has written for numerous websites and his in-depth analytical articles top sports magazines like Cricket Today and Sports Today. He reports gaming industry headlines from all around the globe.