Lottery organizers in russia

Who prints tickets?

Today lotteries in Russia are only state-owned. They are organized by two structures:

• Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation ("Russian Lotto", "Housing lottery");
• Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation ("Forward to the victory", KENO-Sportloto).

"Gosloto" and "Russian Lotto" - brands, owned by the Ministry of Finance. JSC "State Sports Lotteries" and LLC "Sportloto" - approved contractors-operators. And the trading house "Stoloto" is a single distributor of tickets, who also pays winnings. Stoloto points of sale are located in all cities of Russia.

The procedure for holding lotteries in Russia

1. The Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation or the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation concludes an agreement with the operator; studies and approves the rules for the lottery developed by him.

2. Operator (JSC "State Sports Lotteries" or LLC "Sportloto") holds a lottery.

3. Stoloto provides ticket distribution and winnings. By law, the prize fund is sent at least 50% the cost of each ticket.

There is no legal private lottery business in Russia, since the monopolist company is engaged in the draws. The rationale for the prohibition of private lotteries said, that the state guarantees the fair organization of the process and the receipt of the prize; deductions from the lottery go to finance government programs. But in reality, the control is not strong enough, and the processes are not transparent. Detailed "exposure" of "Stoloto" was published by "Moskovsky Komsomolets".

Market size and history of big wins

Despite all the disadvantages of the existing system, the lottery business in Russia is a multi-million dollar industry, which grows every year. So, at 2016 year number of tickets, distributed through the "Russian Post", grew by 46% (to 39,6 mln pcs.). And "Gosloto" only for the first half of the year 2017 earned 1,8 billion rubles.

According to statistics, the "Chair", they win in state lotteries today 76% participants. Every day the company pays about 200 000 wins of various sizes. Paid weekly approximately 15 winnings, equivalent 1 million rubles and more.

Here are some stories, happened literally in the last months:

• 16 February, a resident of Ufa guessed five numbers and won more than 26 RUB million. The prize was drawn in one of the draws of the Gosloto lottery 5 of 36 ".
• 26 people won millions of prizes in the New Year's ticket raffle, distributed through the "Russian Post". The drawing has passed 1 january. The press service of "Post" notes, that there were only seven winners in last year's draw.
• 1 Martha 2018 of the year a resident of Nizhny Novgorod won 267 RUB million. According to a lucky player, he developed his own system for determining the winning combination.

What has changed in the new year?

FROM 2018 years, only citizens can participate in Russian state lotteries 18 years and older, and the winnings are paid upon presentation of the passport.

Taxation of winnings has also changed. Amounts less 4 thousand. rub. you can not declare; tax on winnings over 15 thousand. rub. deducted and paid by the lottery operator, and from amounts from 4 thousand. to 15 thousand. rub. citizens pay taxes on their own.

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