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Ukraine should be in sync with modern transformations in global gambling
The world continues to live its life, in which entertainment is part of the usual agenda. And every year, the global entertainment...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Feb 26


Trump's new tax policy - What does the White House offers for casinos?
Only a month has passed since the inauguration of the 47th President of the United States, but the first conclusions about his economic...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Feb 18


There is a gambling addiction, but there is no catastrophe - half of the country is not a gambling addict
I continue to summarise the results of the year. It is difficult to stay away from the analysis of the second most popular topic after...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Feb 5


The process of forming a new regulatory institution in the gambling sector is complicated
It is already the second month since the adoption of the Law of Ukraine No. 4116-IX introducing a number of significant regulatory...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Jan 29


Although negative trends in gambling advertising remain, I hope it will not last long
Almost a month has passed since the Law of Ukraine "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine to Fight Gambling Addiction and...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Jan 22


Attracting investments in Ukrainian gambling will depend on regulatory policy
The issue of attracting foreign investment in Ukrainian gambling in 2025 will depend on how the state's regulatory policy in the field of...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Jan 15


Ukrainian gambling - results of 2024 and expectations for the new year
At the beginning of the new year, it is traditional to summarise the results of the past and make predictions for the future. For the...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Jan 2


Gambling legislation is changing, but lotteries remain non-gambling
For more than half a year - from the first reading of the draft law 9256-d in the parliament and until its adoption on 4 December 2024 -...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Dec 26, 2024


Assessing the changes envisaged by the draft law No. 9256-d for the gambling sector
In early December, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted in the second reading and in general the draft law No. 9256-d "On Amendments to...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Dec 19, 2024


About the positive experience of Germany in the fight against illegal gambling advertising
Cooperation between government agencies and multinational IT companies is becoming increasingly important to ensure effective monitoring...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Dec 12, 2024


Adoption of Draft Law 9256-d will reduce the investment attractiveness of legal gambling
Lottery operators are doing everything they can to avoid working according to the general rules set for the legal gambling market in...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Nov 27, 2024


Streamlining gambling taxation will bring more money to the budget
Every year that passes since the re-launch of the legal gambling market in Ukraine, the activities of gambling companies bring more and...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Nov 20, 2024


Gambling advertising should be controlled, not banned
It has been six months since the Government adopted amendments to the CMU Resolution No. 566 of 17 May 2024 "Some issues of...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Nov 13, 2024


Why lotteries are gambling. The case of the UK
A series of my blogs on streamlining, standardising and unifying requirements for the definition of gambling market participants, where I...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Oct 30, 2024


Where the welfare of citizens is higher, there is more gambling
Public opinion surveys conducted by sociological companies commissioned by government agencies, commercial companies, and civil society...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Oct 22, 2024


Ukrainians clearly identify lotteries as gambling
Lotteries are gambling! And the vast majority of Ukrainians understand this, as evidenced by the results of a recent public opinion poll...

Viktoriya Zakrevskaya
Oct 17, 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


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


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


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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