Russian banks block CASINO payments from cards issued in Russia

This innovation appeared relatively recently...
At the moment, according to the legislation of the Russian Federation "On state regulation of activities for the organization and conduct of gambling and on amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation", article 5.1 paragraph 3. cross-border operations for the transfer of funds in favor of service providers with the Casino code have been suspended.

A credit institution - issuer of a payment card is obliged to refuse a client - an individual in carrying out a transaction for a cross-border transfer of funds using a payment card in favor of a recipient of funds located outside the territory of the Russian Federation, if there is a code or other transaction identifier assigned within the payment system, a foreign payment system, indicating that the recipient of the transferred funds is engaged in activities related to organizing and conducting gambling, or if the available information about the recipient of funds allows the credit institution to determine that information about him is included in the list of persons in respect of whom there is information about their activities related to organizing and conducting gambling in violation of the legislation of the Russian Federation.

As a reminder, as of July 1, 2009, gambling in the Russian Federation outside of specially designated gambling zones (in the Republic of Crimea, Altai, Krasnodar, Primorsky Krai, and Kaliningrad Oblast) is permitted only in bookmakers and betting shops. All other gambling establishments may only be opened in designated gambling zones (Federal Law No. 244-FZ of December 29, 2006).