Russian regulator warns payment providers

21 Feb 2025
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Both companies have been given a short period of time to stop their activities with illegal online gambling operators or the regulator will have to serve further punishments.

Recently, Roskomnadzor has been cleaning the market of illegal online operators by shutting down their affiliate marketing and monitoring Russian language sports sizes when it comes to advertising on them.

According to reports, up until now the regulator has already banned around 6,000 blacklisted online gambling websites.

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