… has been putting in efforts to control this and crack down operators who were offering illegal online gambling, but had been failing continuously. The national gambling laws explicitly said that online gambling was forbidden at that point, even though there were land-based operators that were running online gambling sites licensed offshore and not in the country. The country allowed operators interested in opening brick-and-mortar casinos and betting shops to apply for a license and run a legal gambling business, monitored and controlled by the Ministry of Finance. … legalized land-based gambling in the mid-2000s, and introduced licensing fees that have remained static throughout the years. Things have changed drastically throughout the years, and recent developments in the country show that actually, things are to continue changing. Looking back historically, Armenia was one of those countries where land-based gambling was regulated and legal, but not online gambling. But there are also countries that belong in this grey area, which have not explicitly regulated it but also have not done anything to stop players from gambling. When it comes to online gambling, it has been widely accepted by some countries, and strongly frowned upon by others. Online casinos accepting players from Armenia
