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White House official: US President Donald Trump has not yet made any new decisions on new Russia sanctions.
Anatoly Aksakov, chairperson of the financial marekt committee of the Russian State Duma, made it clear to RIA Novosti recently that bitcoin and ethereum will never become legal means of payment in Russia. He stressed: "We must understand that cryptocurrencies will never become money in Russia. Cryptocurrencies can only be used as investment vehicles. When payments are required, they must be made only in rubles." Although the Russian central bank has been firmly opposed to cryptocurrencies, the ...
According to Cryptopolitan, Russian prosecutors are seeking to seize the property of former Interior Ministry official Georgy Satyukov worth more than 2.10 billion rubles (about 3 billion dollars). Satyukov is accused of accepting bribes from Alexey Ivanov, the administrator of the WEX cryptocurrency exchange, for 2,119.5 bitcoins and 10,016 ethereum. Satyukov led the "K" unit dedicated to investigating financial fraud and cybercrime from 2019-2021, with luxury assets including 13 apartments, co...
Last week, Russian Deputy Finance Minister Ivan Chebeskov said financial regulators were ready to drop an exclusive regulatory definition that allowed only a small number of "highly qualified" investors to access decentralized digital currencies such as bitcoin and their derivatives, according to market sources. Vladimir Chistyukhin, the first deputy governor of the Russian central bank, confirmed to reporters: "Indeed, our colleagues in the Ministry of Finance are correct...
According to a report by Cryptopolitan, the Russian central bank has said that while investment in domestic cryptocurrency derivatives is growing, it does not pose a risk to the financial system. The Financial Stability Review published data for the second and third quarters of 2025: Russian households invested about 3.70 billion rubles (about 47.30 million dollars) in cryptocurrency-based derivatives.
Oleg Ogienko, a member of the working group on crypto regulations of the Russian State Duma, proposed at the Digital Almaz forum recently that an amnesty policy should be implemented for cryptocurrency miners who use illegally imported equipment in order to convert this group of underground practitioners, who make up 60% of the total number of miners in the country, into legal operations. Ogienko pointed out that although Russia has passed legislation to legalize mining this year, there is a lac...
The Russian Ministry of Finance is actively considering significantly simplifying the entry requirements for digital asset investors. The proposed simplification measures are expected to expand the range of participants in Russia's experimental legal system for cryptocurrency exchanges (ELR), lower the strict "super qualified" investor threshold (which requires a large amount of assets or income, such as investments of 100 million rubles or annual income of 50 million rubles), and more Russian c...
Russia has added several options for investing in cryptocurrency-related assets.
The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) has revealed that Russian intelligence funds the spy group of former Wirecard executive Jan Marsalek through a cash-for-cryptocurrency money laundering network. The spy group consists of six Bulgarian nationals who have been convicted of spying, spying on journalists and politicians, and plotting assassinations. British police said the network posed a serious threat before it was destroyed. The UK's National Crime Agency has been...
POLITICO: The White House is poised to unveil a major new peace deal with Russia that officials say will finally end the three-and-a-half-year conflict with Ukraine. A senior White House official said a framework for ending the conflict could be agreed by the end of the month or even "as soon as this week".
