Russia

Top Online Casinos for Russia

Russia is a red-level online gambling jurisdiction with a total ban on all forms of online gambling.
Back to list of Restrictions

Russia is the largest country in the world by land mass, and it makes up northern Asia and eastern Europe. It borders Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Belarus and Ukraine to the west. It also borders Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China and North Korea to the south.

Overall

In Russia, all online gambling is illegal. This is due to a law passed in 2006, but it's a law that many foreign sites simply ignore for the most part. It's worth noting that they have been very restrictive of land-based gambling in recent years as well, and in 2009, a ruling restricted land-based gambling to just four different areas, and gambling anywhere else is illegal.

Russia is very aggressive when it comes to keeping their citizens from gambling online. A 2012 court ruling forced Internet service providers into blocking sites from a blacklist, and this came after they refused for years leading up to the ruling. Now they can lose their license to operate at all if they do not comply with the ruling.

Licensing

No licensing process for any type of online gambling exists anywhere in Russia. Something that's interesting about this is that Vladimir Putin has made a number of statements in the past about the possibilities of regulating certain types of gambling, especially online poker, because of the very heavy skill element. There has yet to be any advances on this front at the time of this writing, however.

Long story short, it's unlikely that Russia will create a licensing process for any type of online gambling in the near future.

Player Protections

Since no type of online gambling is regulated, there are no player protections by the government. They've actually went out of their way to give people a lot of reasons not to play, and this includes active blacklists, blocking financial transactions and creating an infrastructure that builds up a culture of avoiding gambling. A good example of this infrastructure is their "Roskomnadzor," which is a list of sites that are banned that offer gambling information or actual online gambling. Even sites that do not offer the games can be on this banned list, and that shows how far they're willing to go to keep online gambling away.

Further Reading

Russia is the largest country in the world by land mass, and it makes up northern Asia and eastern Europe. It borders Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Belarus and Ukraine to the west. It also borders Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China and North Korea to the south. Overall In Russia, all online gambling is illegal. This is due to a law passed in 2006, but it's a law that many foreign sites simply ignore for the most part. It's worth noting that they have been very restrictive of...
Read more

Casinos found: 739

Show Filters
Russia

To save you time, we are only displaying casinos that are accepting players from Russia.
If we have jumped the gun, you can remove that filter by clicking here.

100% up to руб15000 + 100 Spins

4.6 / 261 votes

moreless PLAY

100% up to €/$400 bonus code: THEBIGONE

4.5 / 618 votes

Exclusive Bonus - Read Details

130% up to €/$100 + 100 Spins bonus code: LCB

4.5 / 243 votes

moreless PLAY

500% up to €/$5000 bonus code: THEBIGONE

4.4 / 1145 votes

400% up to $400 bonus code: 400LIBERTY

4.4 / 978 votes

  • All Software Wager Gaming
Rizk Casino 21/01/16

100% up to €/$100 + 50 Spins

T&C's Apply

4.4 / 398 votes

moreless PLAY

100% up to $700

4.4 / 66 votes

moreless PLAY
Exclusive Bonus - Read Details

200% up to $1000 bonus code: LCBBONUS

4.3 / 131 votes

moreless PLAY
Exclusive Bonus - Read Details

300% up to $300 bonus code: LCB300

4.2 / 770 votes

300% up to $300 bonus code: 400LIBERTY

4.2 / 914 votes

  • All Software Wager Gaming

4.2 / 926 votes

  • All Software Wager Gaming