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Why lotteries are gambling. The case of the UK
A series of my blogs on streamlining, standardising and unifying requirements for the definition of gambling market participants, where I...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Oct 30, 2024


Global gambling market continues to grow
Нещодавно компанія H2 Gambling Capital, яка є одним із найавторитетніших анал Recently, H2 Gambling Capital, one of the most respected...

Anton Kuchukhidze
Oct 29, 2024


Where the welfare of citizens is higher, there is more gambling
Public opinion surveys conducted by sociological companies commissioned by government agencies, commercial companies, and civil society...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Oct 22, 2024


Ukrainians clearly identify lotteries as gambling
Lotteries are gambling! And the vast majority of Ukrainians understand this, as evidenced by the results of a recent public opinion poll...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Oct 17, 2024


Metamorphosis of Ukrainian gambling: how critics become supporters
The last year has already become a unique one for the legal domestic gambling market: many of its critics from the authorities have...

Yurii Havrilechko
Oct 16, 2024


Which countries gamble the most and what does it say about their economies?
In order to understand the level of development of the gambling market in Ukraine, it is not enough to assess the current tax and licence...

Anton Kuchukhidze
Oct 15, 2024


63% of Ukrainians consider lotteries to be gambling
The manipulations of lottery operators that lotteries are not gambling are nothing more than their attempts to avoid paying taxes and...

Anton Kuchukhidze
Oct 8, 2024


Reforms continue, but lotteries are still "non-gambling"
The issues of transparency and responsibility in gambling and lotteries are important topics for public discussion, and therefore, facts...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Oct 2, 2024


The fight against illegal operators is gradually progressing
By mid-2024, there was a clear impression that someone was deliberately trying to strengthen the illegal gambling market as opposed to...

Anton Kuchukhidze
Oct 1, 2024


Advertising ban has almost destroyed competition in the legal gambling market
It is very positive that finally, in the fifth year of the gambling market reform in Ukraine, even the biggest critics of gambling...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Sep 25, 2024


PRE MATCH brand is an example of dark competition in the gambling market
The Constitution of Ukraine guarantees that the state will ensure the free development of an environment where entrepreneurial activity...

Anton Kuchukhidze
Sep 24, 2024


Filling the state budget and the lottery - the relationship should become stronger
This year, the government submitted the draft state budget for the next year, 2025, to the Parliament on time. Traditionally, as in the...

Yurii Havrilechko
Sep 18, 2024


Consequences of gambling advertising ban deepen the crisis on the legal market
The first months of the ban on gambling advertising demonstrated the problematic nature of this initiative. Negative consequences were...

Anton Kuchukhidze
Sep 17, 2024


It becomes harder for illegal gambling to operate online with impunity
Illegal gambling is facing increasing difficulties in operating online. This global trend is primarily due to the tightening of...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Sep 11, 2024


Gambling advertising ban is a wrong way to go, and therefore an alternative is needed
There is indeed a trend in developed Western markets to ban gambling advertising. Regulatory legislation is becoming more and more...

Anton Kuchukhidze
Sep 10, 2024


Illegal activities of lottery operators were "noticed" only after criminal proceedings by the BES
The situation with the taxation of gambling market organisers has been viewed extremely biased since the return of gambling to the legal...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Sep 5, 2024


The end of the era of impunity for "state" lotteries?
Recently, the overarching theme of my blogs has been the illegal operation of lotteries, which remains one of the key problems of the...

Anton Kuchukhidze
Sep 3, 2024


Inadequate taxation of gambling deprived the budget of billions of hryvnias
Between January and July of this year, legal gambling organisers paid UAH 9.8 billion in tax payments to the state budget of Ukraine....

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Aug 28, 2024


CRGL and Facebook partnership brings first significant results
CRGL uses every opportunity to fight illegal activities in the gambling market. In particular, the Commission has recently tightened...

Anton Kuchukhidze
Aug 27, 2024


The fight against domestic illegal gambling goes international
Our world is increasingly immersed in virtual space, and modern technology has become such an integral part of life that it is hard to...

Yurii Havrilechko
Aug 21, 2024
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