Russias

President Vladimir Putin has signed a new law granting Russian courts the power to seize or confiscate crypto assets such as Bitcoin. It comes as Russia pushes for crypto regulations and crackdown foreign crypto exchanges. Also, Telegram founder...

Investment firm VanEck recently suspended two Russia ETFs as Western sanctions bite hard on profitability.New York-based asset manager VanEck is liquidating its Russia exchange-traded funds (ETFs) following a lack of Western investment interest. According to VanEck, since the...

The largest bank in Russia, Sber, has announced that its proprietary blockchain platform will be compatible with Ethereum. In a press release, the bank, whose majority shareholder is the Russian government with a “50% + 1 share” option, announced...

Ukraine’s government plans to launch a collection of Non-fungible Tokens (NFT) to serve as a digital museum to symbolize Russia’s attack on Ukraine; and by extension, the war at large. This move is seen by some as another...

Ruble-denominated Bitcoin volumes reached a 9-month high as investors fled to safe-haven assets. Most of the trading is on cryptocurrency exchange Binance, according to details cited by CoinDesk. More and more people have looked to buy Bitcoin and other...

The number of countries supporting Russia’s removal from the SWIFT payments system grew on Saturday, as the Ukraine invasion rages on. Focus now turns to whether Moscow will adopt digital assets to bypass crippling economic sanctions. Growing calls for...

Minutes after Russia announced a “special military operation” in Ukraine, effectively declaring war on the Eastern European country, Vitalik Buterin, a Russian-Canadian cofounder of the Ethethereum B blockchain, criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin on Twitter. Buterin Speaks Out Buterin said...

The government of Russia is coming under more pressure to make more friendly regulations for crypto in the country. A letter sent to Russia’s finance minister by Sergey Katyrin, the head of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry...