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Pavel Livadny, deputy director of Federal Financial Monitoring Service of Russia, Rosfinmonitoring, has suggested that the bill implying ban of cryptocurrency in Russia will have to be revised.

Vadim Kalukhov, Head of newly established Department of Financial Technologies, Projects, and Process Organization of the Bank of Russia, has confirmed the regulator’s interest for blockchain technology. Kaluhkov, however, insists that terms “bitcoin”, “blockchain” and “distributed ledgers” shall be considered separately. He said that in his interview with publication FutureBanking. He added that the Central […]

On 2 June 2016, Russian Parliament, the State Duma, will hold an international conference titled “Electronic Currency in Light of Contemporary Legal and Economic Challenges”. The letter describing the forthcoming event was signed by deputy chairman of Duma’s committee for security and anti-corruption Andrei Lugovoy. This March, Lugovoy stroke a blow for cryptocurrency saying that […]

Speaking at the conference titled “Blockchain and Open Platforms” held by Bankir.ru, Olga Skorobogatova, deputy chairwoman of the Bank of Russia, told about possible development of digital national currencies and banking industry’s interest to distributed ledgers.

Alexander Bastrykin, Head of Russian Investigative Committee, claimed that cryptocurrencies may supersede real money from the market. He wrote about that in his major article on ‘hybrid war’ he believes the US wages against Russia. It was published on April 18 in Russian newspaper Kommersant.Vlast. Bastrykin writes the war has been continuing for ten years. […]

Leader of Russian Blockchain.community and founder of fintech accelerator Alex Fork has registered Bitcoin as a trademark. As PLUSworld.ru reported, Bitcoin’s certificate of the trademark is numbered 552645. It is owned by Bitcoin LLC founded by Alex Fork. According to Fork himself, the patent expires on December 30, 2023. However, he said he wants to […]

Bitcoin enthusiast Alexei Bragin, earlier engaged in ReactOS and tutoring at Moscow State Technical University, decided to enter Russian parliament to defend “the interests of science and small businesses”.

Russian developers used blockchain technology to implement several pilot projects on biometric identification for bank customers. The projects were the subject of discussion at early April’s meeting of “Internet + Finance” group. Attending the meeting were Pavel Pugachyov, deputy head of Russian President’s directorate for Development of IT and E-Democracy, Andrei Romanenko, head of “Internet […]