Russian bookmakers Archives

Russian bookmakers 2020 ranking published

Andriey Nabukhotnyi RUSSIA 13 October 2020 No comment

Market Research Analytical Group of the Russian media group RBC has updates its version of the national rating of bookmakers. The 5th edition of the ranking has three new participants. Liga Stavok is still on the first place. The 2nd place also remained unchanged with Fonbet betting copmany. However, the third place is now occupied […]

More than 11k gambling sites blocked in Russia in April

Andriey Nabukhotnyi RUSSIA 8 May 2019 No comment

Russian telecom watchdog Roskomnadzor blocked 11,830 gambling sites in April. The calculation was made by Betting Business Russia based on the registry on the Rublacklist website. Among the blocked sites, there were 1371 mirrors of the Fonbet brand. 696 blocked websites were related to Parimatch, 592 to 1xBet, 456 to Zenitbet, 374 to Marathonbet, 315 […]

Bet365, Pinnacle and William Hill consider entering Russian market

Andriey Nabukhotnyi RUSSIA 27 March 2019 No comment

According to Betting Business Russia, three oversea bookmakers plan to enter Russian betting market in 2019. In an interview with Darina Denisova, the president of Russian association of bookmakers, Betting Business Russia has mentioned that Bet365, Pinnacle and William Hill plan to get Russian license. Darina Denisova commented that in recent years, many European betting

An independent survey named Russian sports betting market leaders

Andriey Nabukhotnyi RUSSIA 2 January 2019 No comment

Analytical companies GfK and Ipsos interviewed Russians and learned how many people are betting on sports and why, and created a popularity ranking of betting companies in 2018. The survey was conducted in several regions of Russia including various age groups.

Russia to eliminate bookmaker self-regulatory organizations

Andriey Nabukhotnyi RUSSIA 6 December 2018 No comment

Betting Business Russia reported that the Ministry of Economic Development plans to abolish the Russia’s three SROs, self-regulatory organizations (SROs) that represent licensed bookmakers’ interests. The government considers that these organizations are duplicating functions of the Federal Tax Service (FTS). The First SRO of Russian Bookmakers and the Bookmakers SRO were

Russia continues the fight against offshore betting

Andriey Nabukhotnyi RUSSIA 10 November 2018 No comment

Russian search engine Yandex began excluding links to offshore betting companies from the search results. The information was posted in a group of Gambling marketing in Facebook. According to the post, Yandex excludes sites associated with the bookmakers. It is strange that the measure works only for the PariMatch keyword. For the rest of betting […]

Experts named the most popular sports for betting in Russia

Andriey Nabukhotnyi RUSSIA 26 October 2018 No comment

More than half of all Russian punters prefer to bet on football matches. The second most popular game is tennis. However, it is 4 times less popular than football. This was informed by Deputy Director General of betting company “Liga Stavok” Alexander Egorov, while speaking at the Sport Leaders Global Forum in St. Petersburg last […]

Russia to clear the market of illegal bookies in 5 years

Andriey Nabukhotnyi RUSSIA 23 October 2018 No comment

According to the deputy general manager of Casino Sochi, Dmitry Anfinogenov, and deputy general director of Liga Stavok betting company, Alexander Egorov, there will be no illegal betting companies on the Russian market in the nearest future.Currently, the activity of bookmakers is regulated by law. However, there is a de facto shadow market, the volume […]

Russian bookmakers risk losing license if inactive for over three months

Andriey Nabukhotnyi RUSSIA 17 October 2018 No comment

The State Duma adopted in its first reading the draft law introducing new rules for the gambling license holders. The draft federal law was reviewed in the State Duma and adopted in first reading at the plenary session on October 16. The second reading is scheduled for November 14, 2018. According to the draft law, […]

Nurmagomedov – McGregor. Russian bookmakers set records and suffer losses

Andriey Nabukhotnyi RUSSIA 9 October 2018 No comment

Representatives of the leading Russian betting companies shared the results of Nurmagomedov – McGregor fight with the Rating of the Bookmakers website. There were some new records set, but most of the Russian bookmakers suffered losses. All bookmakers noted that players preferred to bet on the win of the Russian fighter. According to Maxim Afanasyev, […]