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Ukraine urges Google to stop blocking legal gambling ads
The Ukrainian Gambling Council (UGC) has addressed Google with the request to stop blocking the advertising of licensed gambling...

UGC
Oct 16, 2024


UGC once again appeals to Google to stop blocking legal gambling ads
The Ukrainian Gambling Council appealed to Google to stop blocking all advertising of Ukrainian licensed gambling organisers, as it does...

UGC
Oct 16, 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


Recognition of lotteries as gambling is one of the key conditions for the formation of the gambling market in Ukraine
Kuchukhidze is confident that the inclusion of lotteries in the list of gambling games will help not only regulate the market but also...

UGC
Oct 11, 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


The ban on gambling advertising destroyed the development of legal gambling
Soon, the domestic legal gambling market will ‘celebrate’ the anniversary of the government's decision to almost completely ban gambling...

UGC
Sep 26, 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


31 apps with illegal online casinos blocked by Google Play and App Store in Ukraine
Anton Kuchukhidze, Chairman of the Ukrainian Gambling Council, asked the NACP to conduct an anti-corruption expertise of the draft law...

UGC
Sep 20, 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


Scandal in the gambling industry: how gambling was disguised as lotteries in Ukraine
The implications of criminal investigations into lottery and gambling in Ukraine have been widely discussed for several months now, but...

UGC
Sep 9, 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


Lottery operators imitate almost all types of gambling, but there are positive developments
Zakrevska emphasised that since the legalisation of gambling, almost everyone who has been concerned with taxation - from members of the...

UGC
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
In the first seven months of this year, legal gambling organizers in Ukraine have paid UAH 9.8 billion in tax payments to the state...

UGC
Aug 28, 2024


Record revenues from gambling taxation: is it worth celebrating and what is behind it?
The legal gambling market is developing despite the war and rather unfavorable state economic policy. Every year, gambling brings more...

UGC
Aug 28, 2024


The partnership between CRGL and META shows that even the online gambling segment can be effectively regulated
In July 2024, the cooperation between the Commission for Regulation of Gambling and Lotteries and Meta was announced. The goal of the...

UGC
Aug 28, 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
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