On the morning of August 26, Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet with Russian State Duma President Volodin at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
On August 26, Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Russian State Duma President Volodin in Beijing.
The representative of the Russian State Duma, Anton Tkayev, has proposed to Finance Minister Anton Siluanov the establishment of a strategic bitcoin reserve to counter financial risks posed by geopolitical instability.
The Russian State Duma is working on a bill to apply anti-money laundering measures to the digital ruble platform. According to the State Duma Committee on financial marekt, now is the time to pass this bill allowing banks to block suspicious transactions. Once approved, the bill will come into force on January 1, 2025.
Anatoly Aksakov, chairperson of the financial marekt committee of the Russian State Duma, said that the Russian Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance are working on regulations to establish rules for cross-border transfers of cryptocurrencies. The government aims to complete these regulations by the end of November. The Russian government will first test cryptocurrency payment mechanisms under an experimental legal regime (EPR), meaning that only selected players such as credit institutions a...
The Russian State Duma held its second and third deliberations on July 30, approving the use of bitcoin for cross-border transactions as part of an experimental legal system (EPDR) from September 1, 2024. According to foreign media, Russian President Vladimir Putin's government has allowed the use of ether (ETH) and USDT stablecoins, not just central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), which represents a major shift in Russia's attitude towards cryptocurrencies and provides an experimental platform...
President of the Russian Duma Volodin: The United States supports the arrest in France of Pavel Durov, CEO of the social platform Telegram, without providing evidence.
Vladislav Davankov, deputy chairperson of the Russian State Duma, has called on Russia's Federal Service for the Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media to immediately block the websites of major French companies operating in Russia. Durov, the founder of the social media "Telegram", was detained by French intelligence services at Le Bourget airport in Paris on August 24 as he was disembarking from a private plane. Durov was summoned for not cooperating with French a...
On the morning of the 25th, Vice President of the Russian State Duma Davankov called on the Russian Foreign Ministry to try to rescue Durov, saying that he had sent a corresponding request to Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov. The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the Russian Embassy in France has taken the necessary measures to understand the situation of Pavel Durov. Pavel Durov was born in 1984, and the media said that he has the nationality of Russia, France, the United Arab Emirates and othe...
Anatoly Aksakov, chairperson of the financial marekt committee of the Russian State Duma, predicted that at some point in the future, citizens will be able to exchange bitcoin and digital rubles, and a digital ruble-based P2P market is needed to achieve this goal