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SOMS – a step toward a transparent gambling market or a test for legislators?
The State Online Monitoring System (SOMS) is one of the most anticipated tools for reforming the gambling market. In September, the State Agency PlayCity announced the signing of an agreement with Computer Information Technologies LLC, the company that won the open tender to create the system. The first phase is scheduled to launch in December, and full functionality should be operational by October 2026. This is not just a technological project. It is the key to trust betwee

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
5 days ago


Self-exclusion as a tool against gambling addiction
It is unlikely that anyone would dispute the widely accepted fact that preventing disease is more effective than treating it. This...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Sep 18


The EU is stepping up efforts to combat illegal and underage gambling
The gambling industry in Europe is developing rapidly, generating billions of euros in revenue, but at the same time, the shadow segment...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Sep 4


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


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


"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


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


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


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


All over the world, lottery is a game of chance, and only in Ukraine it is not. Why?
The history of gambling goes back five thousand years, and lotteries as a type of gambling have been known for over two thousand years....

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Mar 28, 2024


Unlocking the potential of legal gambling depends on parliamentarians
Every time I feel surprised and cannot ignore publications and statements that "the entire potential of gambling in Ukraine has been...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Mar 21, 2024


Virus-carrying gambling to circumvent sanctions is a game of chance for russia and North Korea
The modern world is gradually moving to an increasingly technological system that affects all areas of our lives, from buying goods and...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Mar 14, 2024


Receiving a housing subsidy as a ground for restricting participation in gambling
The history of gambling addiction cannot be separated from the history of gambling, but only with the legalization of gambling in Ukraine...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Mar 6, 2024


Turbulence in the gambling market affects investments in the industry
If the Verkhovna Rada goes ahead with reformatting the gambling market control system in Ukraine, it is safe to say that there will be no...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Feb 27, 2024


About gambling on the front line. Does it require limitation?
The topic for discussion may seem unusual: should we respond to gambling among the military in the zone of hostilities, on the front...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Feb 20, 2024


UGC decently presented the legal gambling of Ukraine at ICE London 2024
At the beginning of February, ICE 2024, the largest event in the gambling business in the world, was held in London. It is an annual...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Feb 14, 2024


Everyone benefited from the legalization of gambling– the state, legal businesses and citizens
In the beginning of 2024, legal gambling organizers continue to faithfully fulfil all financial obligations regarding license payments....

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Feb 6, 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...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Jan 31, 2024


Gambling addiction exists, but the problem of "widespread gambling addiction" does not
The Ukrainian gambling market got a chance to develop within the legal framework from the second half of 2020 after the adoption and...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Jan 18, 2024


About the gambling culture
Interest of players to use legal resources is an important aspect of the development of national gambling. Thereby, the players help to...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Jan 11, 2024
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