Armenian gambling industry is passing through a successful moment where their numbers are growing and even more with their street machines that were just installed at gas stations. Leading the industry to become one of the most important factors of the GDP´s growth.
However, the gambling industry will always have some opponents and this history isn’t different, the current Prime Minister Nikol Pashinián is alleging that gambling industry with their street machines installed and operating at filling gas stations are causing social problems in local village communities and should simply be removed.
«On the one hand, it promotes poverty, on the other problem gambling. We must pursue a kind of policy where we won’t encourage neither the first one nor the second, this is a very serious problem and people, families, fates and others are being affected. We will discuss openly, transparently, publicly, we will understand whose interests are more taken into account, who’s not, where objective issues exist, we will exclude them and solve this problem, because this really is a serious problem, and people are alarming about this problem,” said Pashinián.
It is also worth mentioning that Armenia has raised the age limits for gamblers, and is now only 21-year-old players are allowed entering a casino
