Parliament passes bill strengthening gambling oversight in first reading

The Kyiv Independent

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Parliament passes bill strengthening gambling oversight in first reading

Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, supported in the first reading on April 24 a bill strengthening the state's oversight over the gambling business, lawmaker Oleksii Honcharenko said.The negative social impacts of gambling are increasingly becoming a topic of public discussion as a petition demanding restrictions on online gambling reached the president's table in March.The bill, which was backed by 272 lawmakers in today's vote, was subm…