Gambling could create “Klondikes” in depressed regions of Ukraine

Gambling could create “Klondikes” in depressed regions of Ukraine, Mikheil Saakashvili, chairman of the National Reform Council, predicts on his Facebook page. A decade ago, as President of Georgia, Saakashvili brought gambling to Batumi, transforming a backwater Black Sea city into an international tourism destination. “We can identify certain depressed regions or territories and literally turn them into Klondikes,” he writes. “The main thing in this is not to invent new corruption troughs. Not to create any useless commissions, regulatory bodies and other schemes whose sole purpose is to knock taxes out of business.”