“Even though there is an age limit – 21 years – my son used his brother’s ID to place bets,” Tuleberdiyeva told Eurasianet. Her neighbor, Aisha Tuleberdiyeva, who works at a local grocery store, said she discovered that her son was skipping class to gamble. “I have found it terrifying to send my daughter to the supermarket in the evening because there were bookmakers along the route.” 3, where several bookmaker outlets were located. “Finally, we will stop seeing these suspicious types lurking around our area,” said Rita Ismailova, a resident of Almaty’s microdistrict No. Gambling was also popular among teens willing and able to circumvent age restrictions. Networks of bookmakers had remained open 24/7 to take the business of people betting on all kinds of sports. Many spouses and parents were elated by the news. “If somebody wants to gamble, let them go to a gaming zone.” “They all need to be dispatched to a reservation,” Nurlan Nigmatulin, the speaker of the Majilis, as the lower house of parliament is known, said in May, when lawmakers first approved these rules. The authorities have declared war on gamblers and since January, bookmakers have been forbidden from operating anywhere but in two special zones out in the Almaty and Akmola regions. These are hard times for Kazakhstan’s gambling business.

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