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Article: An Irishman's Diary

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September 14, 2009
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I AM NOT SURE if Vladmir Putin has ever seen a Gaelic football or hurling match, so I doubt if he was targeting our national games when a new law banned gambling across Russia in July, writes DIARMAID FLEMING

Casinos shut overnight, and like Russian roulette players and poker-sharks forced underground, those of us in Moscow for whom summer without the GAA would be as bleak as the coldest Russian winter have had to resort to unorthodox means for sporting sustenance.

Until July, the GAA fan would beat a path to Novy Arbat, a Las Vegas in central Moscow. With a neon frontage almost as big as Croker, the Metelitsa Sportland Casino boasted as many TV screens as green-baized poker tables, ...

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