{"id":221317,"date":"2026-03-23T13:30:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/igamingbrazil.com\/nao-categorizado\/2026\/03\/23\/pressured-by-fiscal-deficit-russia-prepares-to-legalize-online-casinos-to-boost-revenue\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T14:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:28:16","slug":"pressured-by-fiscal-deficit-russia-prepares-to-legalize-online-casinos-to-boost-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/igamingbrazil.com\/en\/legislation-en\/2026\/03\/23\/pressured-by-fiscal-deficit-russia-prepares-to-legalize-online-casinos-to-boost-revenue\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressured by fiscal deficit, Russia prepares to legalize online casinos to boost revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/igamingbrazil.com\/en\/sports-betting-en-2\/2026\/03\/11\/referee-detained-in-russia-on-suspicion-of-match-fixing\/\"> Russian<\/a> government<\/strong> is <strong>considering legalizing the operation of online casinos as early as next April<\/strong>, with the market projected to<strong> go live in May.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The regulatory shift, driven by the <strong>Ministry of Treasury<\/strong>, seeks to<strong> balance the <a href=\"https:\/\/pt.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kremlin\">Kremlin<\/a>&#8216;s accounts in the face of a growing budget deficit<\/strong>, worsened by the sharp <strong>50% drop in state revenues from oil and gas.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The draft government plan <strong>requires licensing of operators and establishes a tax burden of 30% on annual profits<\/strong> (excluding premium payments).<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thus, <strong>the State&#8217;s goal is to inject 100 billion rubles (around US$1.2 billion) per year into the Treasury&#8217;s coffers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why the Russian government decided to change strategy after 15 years of prohibition<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>country banned online casinos in 2009,<\/strong> but the <strong>Ministry of Treasury<\/strong> admits that the <strong>population continues to bet hundreds of billions of rubles annually on foreign platforms.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>government&#8217;s Internet Regulatory Agency (Roskomnadzor) <\/strong>has failed in its attempts to <strong>restrict access to the gray market<\/strong>, reporting that offshore <strong>operators launch mirror sites and duplicate servers at a speed exceeding state tracking capacity.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sergey Shvedov, editor-in-chief of the Legalbet portal<\/strong>, highlighted that the macroeconomic scenario accelerates the agenda.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Legalization will ensure that national platforms pay the premiums, mitigating the risk that users currently run in the illegal market,&#8221; said Shvedov.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The fiscal deficit ceiling projected for 2026 reached 91% of its capacity in February<\/strong>, forcing authorities to seek new sources of revenue on an emergency basis.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The rigor of the legislative rite and structural compliance bottlenecks<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the optimism, sector leaders preach <strong>institutional caution.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oleg Davydov, executive director of the <strong>First Self-Regulatory Organization of Bookmakers in Russia<\/strong>, recalled that legalization requires the <strong>approval of a federal law that needs to go through three votes in the State Dum<\/strong>a, <strong>receive the approval of the Federation Council <\/strong>and, finally, the <strong>sanction of the president<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to the <strong>long bureaucratic rite<\/strong>, the new market will face<strong> technical verification challenges<\/strong>. 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