Yekaterinburg Consumer Services Committee alongside with some other authorities managed to remove 57 game-playing machines from the city’s kiosks and pavilions, reports Oleg Zemtsov, the spokesperson for Deputy Mayor Viktor Konteev.

There were 67 such machines in town at the beginning of 2006 and, in compliance with Mr. Konteev’s decision, a removal schedule was drawn up that included 69 items, 57 of which were rid of last year. The process of doing away with the playing machines that have no permits will continue this year as well.