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Position of the UGC Chairman on the meeting of the working group to discuss the draft law 9256-d
As I mentioned earlier, this document appeared without communication with business. This is not surprising, as the draft law 9256-d was...

UGC
May 10, 2024


Sectoral draft laws should be prepared in a dialog with business
The preparation and adoption of new laws, the implementation of which may significantly affect the economic situation in the country,...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
May 8, 2024


Where is the temporary investigative commission of the Verkhovna Rada on taxes and lottery licenses?
It seems that the relevant state authorities have finally paid attention to the illegal activities of lotteries, which we at the...

Anton Kuchukhidze
May 7, 2024


Who benefits from pressure on legal gambling?
Since the beginning of the year, legal gambling has been under constant information attack organized by black market lobbyists. The media...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
May 1, 2024


UGC Chairman refers to the NACP to check draft law 9256-d for corruption
The NACP should check for corruption in the "anti-gambling" draft law No. 9256-d, which was adopted by the Parliament in the first...

UGC
Apr 30, 2024


Legal gambling continues to increase its social responsibility
Social responsibility is a fundamental feature that qualitatively distinguishes legal gambling organizers from illegal ones. For legal...

Anton Kuchukhidze
Apr 30, 2024


"Space of Life" is a modern tool for preventing gambling addiction
The legal gambling market means, first of all, high social responsibility of organisers and conscientious compliance with not only all...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Apr 25, 2024


Under the guise of fighting gambling addiction among the military, Hetmantsev wants to take control of lottery licensing - Kuchukhidze
The head of the Verkhovna Rada's Tax Committee, Danylo Hetmantsev, is lobbying for the adoption of a bill to combat gambling addiction...

UGC
Apr 24, 2024


Under stress of war, gambling grips Ukrainian soldiers
Last month Pavlo Petrychenko, a junior sergeant in the Ukrainian army, issued a stark warning to President Volodymyr Zelensky about a...

UGC
Apr 24, 2024


Chairman of UGC Anton Kuchukhidze: "Lottery lobbyists hid two essential things behind the topic of gambling addiction in the Armed Forces of Ukraine"
Anton, what do you think is the reason for such a close attention to gambling? - It may look like a new attack for the public and the...

UGC
Apr 24, 2024


Efforts of lottery operators to discredit legal gambling are doomed
Unfortunately, attacks on the legal gambling business have already become a kind of "norm". Legal organizers are blamed for all the...

Anton Kuchukhidze
Apr 23, 2024


Head of CRGL responds to the discussion on the gambling market
The heated discussion of the current situation in the gambling industry was triggered by the problem of gambling addiction, particularly...

UGC
Apr 23, 2024


Position of the Chairman of the Ukrainian Gambling Council on Draft Law 9256-D
Firstly, it has unfortunately become the norm for the Head of the Committee on Taxation, Customs and Financial Policy to develop gambling...

UGC
Apr 23, 2024


Behind the screen of hype about gambling addiction in the Armed Forces, lottery operators are trying to get rid of CRGL
For the fourth year in a row, Ukraine has been reviving its legal gambling market. The market that was brazenly destroyed fifteen years...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Apr 18, 2024


Statement of the Chairman of the Ukrainian Gambling Council on pressure on gambling organizers
Unfortunately, Ukraine continues to exert pressure on legal gambling market players who operate in a legal environment and are...

UGC
Apr 18, 2024


What does legal gambling do for the state during the war?
Recently, the volume of unreasonable hate against legal gambling in the public sphere has been growing exponentially. Through...

Anton Kuchukhidze
Apr 17, 2024


The number of illegal casinos in Ukraine is simply off the charts
In 2023, legal gambling companies received 53 billion hryvnias of revenue and 6.9 billion hryvnias of net profit. In fact, despite the...

UGC
Apr 11, 2024


Gambling legalization brought Ukraine tens of billions of hryvnias
The situation around the legal gambling market in Ukraine is increasingly reminiscent of the events of early 2009, when the number of...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Apr 10, 2024



UGC
Apr 9, 2024


Gambling and war: are these two concepts compatible?
For more than eleven years - from May 2009 to August 2020 - the gambling market in Ukraine existed only in the illegal plane, as there...

Anton Kuchukhidze
Apr 8, 2024


Gambling and war: are these two concepts compatible?
We should not forget that a significant number of illegal gambling sites are controlled by rashists For more than eleven years - from May...

UGC
Apr 6, 2024


In the first months of 2024, legal casinos paid almost four times more taxes than in the same period of 2023
There are 22 companies operating in the gambling sector in Ukraine that are officially licensed by the Commission for Regulation of...

UGC
Apr 5, 2024


The state should receive adequate funds from organizing and conducting lotteries
Throughout the history of gambling business development in Ukraine, lotteries have been singled out by the state as a separate category...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Apr 3, 2024


Discrediting legal gambling is only beneficial for illegals
"They create a negative image for the industry, emphasizing that the legalization of gambling has led to the spread of gambling...

UGC
Apr 2, 2024
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