Media commentators have justified the restrictive legislation in terms of protecting the youth from gambling problems, reducing social costs of problem gambling, breaking the ties between legal gambling and organized crime, protecting the lower socioeconomic groups from gambling, safeguarding the Russian identity, but ...
In 2009, gambling was banned almost everywhere in Russia. The only exceptions are four specific arranged zones, namely "Altai Palace" in the Altai Republic, "Sobranie" in Kaliningrad, "Casino Sochi" in Krasnaya Polyana near Sochi and "Shambala" and "Tigre de Cristal" in Artyom near Vladivostok.
The single-player campaign features two connected storylines, with the first set from 1986 to 1989 during the final years of the First Cold War, and the other set in 2025 during a Second Cold War and rare earths trade dispute between the United States and China.
