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Google and gambling in Germany
Recent changes in Google's advertising policy in Germany have become a significant step in the fight against illegal gambling. In...

Anton Kuchukhidze
Dec 3, 2024


Adoption of Draft Law 9256-d will reduce the investment attractiveness of legal gambling
Lottery operators are doing everything they can to avoid working according to the general rules set for the legal gambling market in...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Nov 27, 2024


Legalisation of online casinos in France is a confirmation of the global trend of gambling liberalisation
The French government has recently announced that it has started a dialogue with relevant companies and associations on the legalisation...

Anton Kuchukhidze
Nov 26, 2024


Streamlining gambling taxation will bring more money to the budget
Every year that passes since the re-launch of the legal gambling market in Ukraine, the activities of gambling companies bring more and...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Nov 20, 2024


Draft law 9256-d cannot be taken seriously in its current version
At the current stage, the Ukrainian gambling market is under serious pressure due to a number of legislative initiatives, especially the...

Anton Kuchukhidze
Nov 19, 2024


Gambling advertising should be controlled, not banned
It has been six months since the Government adopted amendments to the CMU Resolution No. 566 of 17 May 2024 "Some issues of...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Nov 13, 2024


Under certain conditions, the gambling business can bring even more profits to the state budget
Legal gambling organisers were able to adapt to the war and continue to operate their businesses. Neither tax uncertainty, nor the loss...

Anton Kuchukhidze
Nov 12, 2024


Gambling advertising ban creates problems, not solves them
The ban on gambling advertising was a very unpleasant event for the legal gambling market in Ukraine. From the very first months , it has...

Anton Kuchukhidze
Nov 5, 2024


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
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