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Russia To Regulate Crypto Mining Despite Surge In Electricity Consumption
Russian Deputy Head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade in a speech today at the United Russia discussion platform revealed the country’s move to regulate crypto mining. He was speaking on the devel...
Gov’t says crypto miners consume 2% of total electricity in Russia
Crypto miners account for two percent of the total electricity consumption in Russia, according to the latest government estimate. The energy consumption share of the crypto mining industry has exceed...
Russia Comes Up With a New Bond-Payment Plan to Avoid Default
(Bloomberg) — Russia is planning a bond-payment mechanism to sidestep US sanctions and a potential default as a grace period ticks down on its latest missed coupons. Most Read from Bloomberg The...
Russia enables invoices in crypto
New legislation would allow Russia to issue invoices in crypto to legal entities for international transactions. Russia plans to legalize crypto invoices Russia intends to embrace cryptocurrencies a...
How Russia is thinking to cater its anticipation of using crypto for international payments?
Considering the problems that Russia might be facing given the sanctions, crypto becomes crucial to use them that could help the country to evade. Following the tug of war between authorities an...
Russia Considers Allowing Crypto for International Payments (Report)
Russia is reportedly considering allowing cryptocurrencies to be used as means of international payments. This comes at times when the country is under heavy scrutiny from almost all western countries...
Crypto Miners Consuming 2% Of Electricity in Russia
As per a latest estimate issued by the Russian government, crypto miners are consuming 2% of entire electricity dispersed in the nation. Due to such claims, the industry minister stated that it is now...
There Is A Risk Of Genocide In Ukraine
On May 27, 2022, Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights and New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy published a legal analysis of the serious risk of genocide in Ukraine and Russia’s incitement ...
Is This the Worst Bond Market Ever?
Getty Images getty Back in February, with the unfortunate punctuality of a Swiss watch, we published an article exactly one day before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, signaling our idea to overweight...
Bank of Russia Steps Up Efforts to Issue Digital Ruble Due to Sanctions – Finance Bitcoin News
The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) has accelerated the development of its digital ruble in response to Western sanctions. The monetary authority now intends to pilot transactions with the new version of...
Russia Mulling Crypto for Cross-Border Payments
Russia is reportedly mulling the plans to allow cryptocurrencies for cross-border payments as on one of the survival measures explorable as the country continues to battle sanctions from the West for ...
Russia contemplates allowing crypto for international payments
? Want to work with us? CryptoSlate is hiring for a handful of positions! Russia is considering embracing crypto for international payments to help counter the impact of western sanctions. Ivan Chebes...
Russia Actively Discussing The Use Of Cryptocurrency
The Ministry of Finance is considering allowing the use of cryptocurrencies They might be allowed for international trade Russian officials have teased at this possibility a couple of times Russia’s M...
Crypto Miners Account for Over 2% of Electricity Consumption in Russia, Estimate Suggests – Mining Bitcoin News
The share of crypto miners in Russia’s power consumption structure already exceeds 2%, according to a new government estimate. On this backdrop, the country’s industry ministry believes it’s time to b...
Amid sanctions, Russia weighs crypto for international payments: Report
The Russian Federation is reportedly considering accepting cryptocurrencies for international payments in response to Western sanctions against the country that were prompted by its full-scale invasio...
Russia Considers Using Cryptocurrencies for International Settlements – Bitcoin News
Authorities in Russia are mulling over the possible use of digital currencies for international payments, a high-ranking official from the finance ministry has indicated. If recognized as property, he...
Russia Crypto Adoption Moves Closer With Latest Move
Faced with financial sanctions amid the invasion of Ukraine, Russian authorities are intensifying efforts to bypass the restrictions using cryptocurrencies. Most recently, the country’s central bank p...
Russia Claims Full Control Of Lyman, Advances Into Strategic City Of Severodonetsk As It Tries To Seize Control Of Donbas
Topline Russia’s Ministry of Defense claimed Saturday it captured the strategic city of Lyman in eastern Ukraine as Russian forces seek to encircle thousands of Ukrainian troops in the nearby city of ...
Russia’s Control of Snake Island Spells Hunger and Instability for Parts of Africa and The Middle East
A view of Snake Island, Ukraine which is currently occupied and controlled by a Russian garrison. Wikipedia commons Russia’s foothold on Snake Island, a smattering of land off the coast of Western Ukr...
In Russia Vs. Ukraine A Likely Winner Is North American Energy
372912 03: Natsha Fatale played by Rene Russo and Boris Badenov played by Jason Alexander, plot … [+] against Rocky and Bullwinkle in Universal Studios “The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwin...
To Replenish Its Army In Ukraine, Russia Plans To Strip Its Training Units. It Can Only Do This Once.
Russian troops in January 2022. Russian defense ministry photo Before Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his forces to widen their war on Ukraine starting the night of Feb. 23, the Russian army ...
Russia research crypto for international transactions 1
Russia has been looking into the feasibility of making international transactions using several digital assets. The country is currently seeking avenues to evade sanctions due to its invasion of Ukrai...
One Small Town. A Dilapidated Road. These Are The Russians’ Main Targets In Eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian gunners fire an FH-70 howitzer. Ukrainian army photo A tiny town called Siversk and a potholed road running through it. That’s the current focus of the combined might of the Russian army’s b...
Russia Sends Record Volumes Of Oil To India, China
While Europe shuns Russian oil amid sanctions and expectations of an oil embargo on Russian oil imports, India and China have stepped up purchases and are importing record volumes of Russian crude, ac...
crypto recognized as means of payment- The Cryptonomist
In Russia, crypto has been recognized as a means of payment by the St. Petersburg court. For the office of the city prosecutor, the ruling is marked as a precedent. Russia: St. Petersburg court recog...
How Desperate Is Russia For Good Troops? It’s Hiring Mercenaries. Even The Law-Breakers.
The smoking wreckage of a Russian Su-25 in Donbas on May 22, 2022. Photo via social media Ukrainian air-defense troops firing a Stinger man-portable missile shot down a Russian Su-25 attack jet over t...
Burning gas to produce electricity is ‘stupid,’ the CEO of power giant Enel says
Enel CEO Francesco Starace photographed in 2019. In an interview with CNBC on May 24, 2022, Starace said “you can produce electricity better, cheaper, without using gas.” Giulio Napolitano...
Beat The Market By Investing In Freedom – And Shunning Places Like Russia And China
When Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent most emerging-markets funds plummeting, Perth Tolle’s Freedom Index Fund avoided most of the carnage—because economies run by despots will never be on her buy li...
Majority Of Americans Think Protecting Economy—Not Sanctioning Russia—Should Be Country’s Top Priority, Poll Finds
Topline More than half of Americans now believe the country’s top priority should be staving off damage to the economy rather than punishing Russia for invading Ukraine, according to an Associated Pre...