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Russia nukes digital assets as payments mechanism
The bill amends certain banking laws to permit the use of digital assets as investment vehicles, with the goal of...
Russia: Lawmaker proposes adding digital assets exchange division to MOEX
The head of Russia's State Duma Committee on financial markets, Anatoly Aksakov, has introduced the proposal to launch a regulated...
Russia’s central bank opposes ‘overly risky’ private stablecoins
The Bank of Russia says that stablecoins are risky because the underlying pool of assets doesn’t belong to the user,...
Russia to improve digital assets transaction monitoring as regulations loom
Rosfinmonitoring's head Yuri Chikhanchin said that the agency has been using software to track digital assets transactions and has also...
Russia’s Sber bank completes first digital asset transaction
Sber executed a billion rubles (around $16 million) digital financial asset issuance with its subsidiary SberFactoring as the platform's first...
US diplomats urge Japan to pull through with digital asset sanctions on Russia
The diplomats requested several of the 31 licensed digital assets exchanges and miners in Japan to halt their operations in...