The Russian government is planning to lead the development of the local cryptocurrency market in a “civilized direction” in a bid to protect users, the nation’s prime minister, Mikhail Mishustin, said during a government meeting on November 26. While acknowledging the increasing interest in digital assets, Mishustin proposed the introduction of a Read more…
Binance has been blacklisted in Russia. Roskomnadzor, Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media, added Binance to the list of blacklisted websites on June 2nd and informed Binance that they had been blacklisted on September 24th. According to Roskomnadzor, Binance was blacklisted because Binance contains Read more…
On Friday, Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, signed one of the two digital assets bills into law, Russian media outlet RIA reports. The new law was passed by Russia’s parliament, Duma, last week and states that firms can provide virtual securities on blockchain platforms provided they are well registered with the country’s central bank, Read more…
Russian authorities have detained a group of online criminals that reportedly sold massive amounts of counterfeit banknotes on the dark web in return for cryptocurrencies. According to an April 7 report from Russian news agency Kommersant, the criminal group has managed to sell more than 1 billion counterfeit Russian rubles, worth around Read more…
Russian based Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation spotted a market in need of what they sell – power! But there’s one major difference between them and some of the other hydroelectric, wind, of geothermal based power companies around the world that have embraced electricity-hungry cryptocurrency miners- they’re NUCLEAR. Sergei Nemchenkov, Read more…