Russia floated legalizing online casinos to make self-exclusion more effective

Russia has put forward a proposal to legalize online casinos, with the argument that a regulated market would make self-exclusion measures more effective. For high-risk PSPs, the practical question is obvious: whether the country is moving toward a licensed framework that could reshape acquiring, compliance, and fraud controls for gambling traffic.

1. The proposal comes from Russia and is framed around samozapret (self-exclusion), the mechanism that lets players restrict their own access to gambling services.
2. The stated logic is that legalization would improve the effectiveness of that self-exclusion system, rather than leaving online casino activity outside a regulated framework.
3. No timeline, draft law number, regulator statement, or implementation details were provided in the source text.