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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...

Anton Kuchukhidze
Dec 12, 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


Early meeting the financial targets confirms the effectiveness of CRGL once again
The year has not yet ended, but the Commission for the Regulation of Gambling and Lotteries (CRGL) has already exceeded the state budget...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Dec 6, 2023


What will 2023 be remembered for in the legal gambling sector
For the gambling industry, 2023 became a year of true survival. And it's not just about overcoming the obvious challenges related to the...

Anton Kuchukhidze
Dec 5, 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


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...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Nov 29, 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...

Anton Kuchukhidze
Nov 28, 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


Effectiveness of the gambling sector depends on equal business rules for all
For the three years of the reform of the gaming business in Ukraine, quite a lot has already been done, and if not for the full-scale...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Nov 22, 2023


Lotteries should finally start providing revenues to the state budget
The year 2023 is slowly coming to an end, and therefore it is time to draw conclusions, in particular for the gambling industry in...

Anton Kuchukhidze
Nov 21, 2023


Attack against illegals: recovery of the white gambling market is under threat
The history of the legal gambling market in Ukraine is reminiscent of the constant struggle of the statesman's position, supported by...

Yurii Havrilechko
Nov 15, 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


Lotteries prevent the legal gambling business from realizing its full potential
Despite all the challenges that the legal gambling market has faced from the very beginning of its existence, the Commission for...

Anton Kuchukhidze
Nov 14, 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


The legal gambling market in Ukraine is under threat of destruction
On Thursday, November 9 at 12:00 in the press center of the "Interfax-Ukraine" news agency, a press conference was held on the topic...

UGC
Nov 9, 2023


Illegal gambling has Russian roots and inflict losses to the state budget of Ukraine
In terms of revenue of the state budget from the gambling sector, the current year will witness both record income from taxes and income...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Nov 7, 2023


Ukraine’s Evolving Gambling Landscape: Insights from the Panel of European Gaming Congress in Warsaw
The panel discussion last week, at the European Gaming Congress made me feel inspired to contemplate on critical facets of Ukraine’s...

UGC
Nov 6, 2023


Another upheaval is being prepared in the gambling market: what is it about?
The Verkhovna Rada is preparing another change in the field of gambling business. In October, draft law No. 10101 was registered, which...

UGC
Nov 3, 2023


Statement of the Chairman of the UGC on systemic pressure on the legal gambling
Last week, unprecedented searches were held in legal gambling companies. They attacked a lot of B2B companies that actually provide the...

UGC
Nov 2, 2023


Growth of state budget revenues from gambling shows the effectiveness of the CRGL
Effectiveness of the national gambling market regulator, the Commission for Regulation of Gambling and Lotteries (CRGL) in terms of the...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Nov 1, 2023


Illegal gambling means unearned budget revenues and scammed players
From the first days of legalization, the gambling business in Ukraine developed in difficult conditions. A full-scale war and serious...

Anton Kuchukhidze
Oct 31, 2023
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