- Good afternoon. I have got a question concerning gambling dens... Why taxes and fines for these, so to speak, businessmen are less than fines for drivers? I understand people die on motorways, statistics are collected per day, per month, year... And where are statistics how many suicides were committed because of the debts caused by addiction to gambling? How many families got divorced due to addiction to gambling? Why the charges cannot be raised to these businessmen, as to the people... 10, 20 times?.. Or are they the selected few?.. When will these dens be removed not only beyond Kyiv’s boundaries, but beyond the boundaries of all cities? And what does the recent appearance in the Kyiv subway of blue arcade machines “from city administration” mean? One day the mayor takes them “in bags” out to storages and now sets back his own... Everyone just talks cleverly a lot without any action.

Boris Kolesnikov: We have repeatedly reverted to the subject of gambling dens. I think that generally the United States’ way is the only right way. All gambling dens should be, say, only in Crimea, and only in a specially designated area. What did the Americans pursue in Las Vegas and Atlantic City? For a person to play, it is necessary to arrive in this city. But it is a drastic measure. Initially, arcade machines should be officially banned. We have tried to pass such a law more than once, but we lack votes. And all these orange “democrats”, obviously for some reward, assert gambling business at any cost.