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Rules are for everyone. Ukraine fines legal casino for allowing people with gambling addiction to play
As you know, Ukraine has a register of people with gambling addiction who are banned from gambling and all licensed casinos that violate...

UGC
Feb 21, 2024


New year - old methods: attacks on gambling business continue
Regardless of the efforts made by legal gambling organizers to preserve the gambling market and their business, they are always not...

UGC
Feb 21, 2024


"Catastrophic consequences". Illegal casinos can leak military data and geolocation
Currently, cybersecurity is becoming extremely important, especially for the military and civil servants who have access to confidential...

UGC
Feb 19, 2024


Intrigue and corruption stand in the way of foreign investment in domestic gambling
The ongoing war requires more and more resources, including the funds that Ukrainian businesses operating legally have provided to the...

UGC
Feb 15, 2024


The news of CRGL's liquidation killed an investment worth billions of hryvnias
The purchase of Kozatsky and Ukraine hotels by UAE companies is canceled. This was stated by Anton Kuchukhidze in an article for...

UGC
Feb 13, 2024


How behind-the-scenes manoeuvres destroy investments in Ukraine
The Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has recently supported a draft law on the liquidation...

UGC
Feb 5, 2024


How behind-the-scenes manoeuvres destroy investments in Ukraine
What is really happening? Hetmantsev is taking revenge on CRGL, because he failed to legalize the black and grey schemes of lottery...

Anton Kuchukhidze
Feb 5, 2024


How two years of war changed Ukrainian gambling
The full-scale war that russia launched against Ukraine two years ago on 24 February 2022, significantly changed the structure of the...

UGC
Feb 1, 2024


Gambling reform on the finish line: the introduction of the SOMS has been given the green light
The reform of the domestic gambling market, which began in August 2020 with the entry into force of the Law of Ukraine "On State...

UGC
Jan 25, 2024


Results of the SBC summit in Tbilisi and prospects for gambling in Ukraine
Eastern European gambling expert Viktoriya Zakrevskaya, founding member and deputy chairman of the Ukrainian Gaming Council (UGC), shares...

UGC
Dec 21, 2023


Legal gambling in 2023
Traditionally, in December, we sum up the past year. Fortunately, even war cannot affect this. So, let's talk about how 2023 turned out...

UGC
Dec 20, 2023


Viktoriya Zakrevskayа: Notes from Tbilisi…Ukraine gambling is still to play for
CIS gambling expert, Viktoriya Zakrevskay, Founding Member and Deputy Chair of the Ukrainian Gambling Council (UGC) shares her insights...

UGC
Dec 20, 2023


Anton Kuchukhidze: What can the legal gambling sector expect in 2024?
Legal gambling sector fulfilled the objectives established for 2023 despite all the challenges. Revenue to the state budget exceeded the...

UGC
Dec 12, 2023


"2023 has become the year of survival for the sphere of gambling in Ukraine", - Anton Kuchukhidze
The Chairman of the Ukrainian Gambling Council, Anton Kuchukhidze, summed up the results of 2023 for the gambling business in Ukraine. He...

UGC
Dec 11, 2023


Paradoxes of domestic gambling: lotteries exist, but without licenses
2023 is coming to an end, and it is possible to begin summing up the results of the third full year of reforming the gambling market in...

UGC
Dec 4, 2023


It's time to equate lotteries with gambling at the legislative level
When we look at the set of issues the legal gambling market currently faces besides the war, the fight against illegal businesses ranks...

UGC
Nov 29, 2023


Beat the casino by 50 billion. Why does tax office demands colossal fines from gambling industry?
The State Tax Service believes that the gambling business underpaid the state UAH 51.2 billion in taxes, Yaroslav Zheleznyak, deputy...

UGC
Nov 23, 2023


The lottery lobby is killing the legal gambling market
Legal business is the basis of the functioning of the economy of all civilized countries without exception. And in these countries,...

UGC
Nov 23, 2023


Lotteries Prevent Legal Gambling Business from Realising its Full Potential
Anton Kuchukhidze, Head of Ukrainian Gambling Council, in his recent blog post highlighted some of the issues with lotteries that are...

UGC
Nov 15, 2023


State lotteries or casinos: what does Hetmantsev suggests
The gambling market of Ukraine is a sphere of the economy that is going through not the best times. After an 11-year ban on activity in...

UGC
Nov 13, 2023
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