Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter signed zoning legislation on Sunday that would allow for a proposed Foxwoods Casino in Center City. The action establishes a Commercial Entertainment District in the Market Street East section, including the Gallery at Market East, the shopping center that would house the casino. The district is bounded by 10th and 11th streets and Filbert and Market streets.

Within EELEX show, the Conference “Gambling zones: Problems. Aims. Reforms” will be held and whip up the representatives of four gambling zones – south is “Azov City” (Krasnodar region), north is “Siberian Coin” (Altay region), west is “Yantarnaya” (Kaliningrad region), east is Primorsky region and “Kamskiye Polyani” (Tatarstan) which is working now. The conference will be dedicated to urgent questions of gambling business in Russia...

To control the tidal wave of slot machine outlets and casinos which have flooded Ukrainian cities, politicians are looking to copy a radical step taken by Moscow. The Russian capital passed a law in December 2006 forcing all gaming operations to move outside city limits to specialized gambling zones, and certain Ukrainian members of parliament (MP) want to do the same...

Vladivostok - At a press-conference Primorye Governor claimed that the gambling zone that is planned to be created on Russkiy Island will become an "anchor" for investors. Mr. Darkin said to the journalists that he is not keen on gambling, but supports the project of the gambling zone in Primorye. In the whole world gambling zones transform into entertainment zones.

Russia’s Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov inked a ruling to set up a gambling zone, Azov-City, in the Scherbinovsky district of Krasnodar area and the Azov district of Rostov region, the RF government’s press service reported. The gambling zone will extend to 20.022 million sq meters, covering a portion of the Krasnodar area and the Rostov region in southern Russia.

Vladivostok (Itar-Tass) - A project for creation of a casino zone in the Primorsky Territory was presented at the First Pacific Economic Congress on Saturday. An area of 342 hectares near the Muravyinaya Bay on Cape Cherepakha will be provided to set up such a zone. It is almost 80 kilometres from Vladivostok. The bay is located very suitably near key transport junctions.