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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 14, 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 7, 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 1, 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
Sep 30, 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 24, 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 17, 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 2, 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 27, 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 26, 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


UAH 9.8 billion in taxes is not the limit
Legal gambling organizers have adapted to doing business in a time of war. Neither tax uncertainty, nor loss of assets and customers, nor...

Anton Kuchukhidze
Aug 19, 2024


Playing with credit money will become more difficult
Regulation of the gambling sector by the state is quite complex and multidimensional, given the special attention of society to the...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Aug 12, 2024


CRGL will fight against illegal gambling advertising on Facebook and Instagram
It is no secret that illegal gambling companies actively use social media to advertise their services and attract players. In particular,...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Aug 6, 2024


A little-noticed, but very important step by CRGL in the fight against gambling addiction
Gambling is primarily entertainment, not a way to make money. However, not all players realize this. That is why CRGL continues to...

Anton Kuchukhidze
Aug 5, 2024


Register of gambling addicts and gambling culture - how it works
The issue of preventing and overcoming gambling addiction (ludomania) arose during the preparation of the draft law on the legalization...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Jul 30, 2024
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