HOUSTON, TX – JULY 3: The Russian supertanker Astro Lupus waits to unload its cargo of the first … [+] direct shipment of Russian crude oil to the United States 03 July 2002 in the Gulf of...
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Seized Russian Oligarchs’ Assets Could Be Used For Ukraine Aid Under Senate Bill
Topline A bipartisan group of senators unveiled legislation Tuesday that would allow the government to seize and sell assets of sanctioned Russian oligarchs to help raise funds for humanitarian effort...
The US Creates New Crypto Task Force, Kleptocapture, To Choke Flow Of Russian Billionaires Money
Kleptocapture task force would be composed of professionals in export control enforcement The task force will also look into matters like anti-money laundering, asset forfeiture, tax enforcement, and ...
Ukraine to launch NFT to mark the history of Russian invasion
Digital assets will be used to fund war efforts Digital assets are used to fund and influence media activity also Ukrainian government is ready to launch a non-fungible token The Ukrainian government ...
Elliptic Identifies Crypto Wallets Linked to Sanctioned Russian Officials
Cryptocurrency security company Elliptic has identified hundreds of thousands of crypto wallets and addresses linked to Russians on the sanctioned list. It is also investigating wallets that could be ...
Russian Crypto Volumes Slump After Binance Blocks Visa, Mastercard
Russian crypto trading volumes sank after Binance blocked cards issued by Visa and Mastercard in the country. While Russian citizens still have access to crypto exchanges, it appears that sanctions on...
Japan took action; ordered crypto exchanges not to process Russian assets
East Asian country has joined the sanctions and economic tough measures movement against Russia and its allied countries The Russian invasion of Ukraine has ignited relations with western and other Eu...
Bitcoin could crush Russian ruble by rising another 140%, classic technical setup suggests
Bitcoin (BTC) has declined by around 30% after topping out at 5.8 million rubles a token on March 9. Nonetheless, the said drop could be an excuse for traders to dump another big stash of the Russian ...
Russian Forces Stalled Outside Kyiv, U.S. Says
Topline Russia’s military is approaching the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv from several directions in a possible effort to encircle the city, but its forces have been stalled for several days, partly due ...
Russian Oligarch Andrey Muraviev Indicted For Illegal U.S. Political Donations
Topline Russian businessman Andrey Muraviev has been charged with allegedly making illegal political contributions and conspiring to donate $1 million to influence U.S. elections in 2018, U.S. prosecu...
Putin allows Russian airlines to fly $10 billion worth of foreign-owned planes
Aeroflot Russian Airlines civil jet aircraft produced by Airbus at Moscow-Sheremetyevo International Airport. Leonid Faerberg | Lightrocket | Getty Images Foreign aircraft lessors seeking to recover s...
Rep. Brad Sherman files bill in Congress on Russian sanctions and crypto
advertisement A member of Congress has filed new legislation on crypto and Russian financial sanctions. Public records show that Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) submitted the measure on March 13. The bill...
Department of Justice Targets Crypto Exchanges in Effort To Clamp Down on Russian Oligarchs: Report
The Department of Justice (DOJ) says crypto exchanges will be included in a sweeping new strategy to clamp down on the assets of Russian oligarchs. Earlier this month, the DOJ announced the launch of ...
Pfizer Will Donate All Russian Profits To Ukrainian Relief Efforts
Topline Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer will donate all profits from its Russian subsidiary to Ukrainian relief efforts and provide only a humanitarian supply of medicine to Russia, the company announced ...
Japan Orders Crypto Exchanges Not To Process Transactions Involving Russian Assets
On Monday, Japanese authorities directed cryptocurrency exchanges to refrain from processing transactions involving digital assets that are liable to asset freeze restrictions on Russia and Belarus ov...
Ukrainian vice prime minister requests Tether to block Russian transactions
The Ukraine vice prime minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, has asked Tether, the largest stablecoin issuer, to stop transacting with Russian users. This comes as Ukraine continues to advocate for more action ...
Sudan Rejects Russian Illicit Gold Smuggling Allegations – Featured Bitcoin News
Sudan has denied claims Russian entities have smuggled hundreds of tonnes of illicit gold from its territory. Officials have called the allegations fake news and suggested that Sudan is in fact lookin...
Russian Central Bank Changes Process of USD-RUB Rate Calculation
The Central Bank of Russia is changing the procedure of calculating and publishing the official foreign exchange rates as the value of the ruble against the US dollar plummeted over the past few weeks...
Hang Seng slumps 3% over COVID lockdown worries, oil falls as Russian attacks in Ukraine intensify
BANGKOK (AP) — Stocks were mixed in Asia and oil prices fell Monday as uncertainty over the war in Ukraine and persistently high inflation kept investors guessing about what lies ahead. Tokyo and Sydn...
IMF Head Says Russian Default No Longer an ‘Improbable Event’
(Bloomberg) — A Russian sovereign default is no longer improbable, though it’s unlikely to trigger a global financial crisis, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva s...
US Creates New Crypto Task Force To Choke Flow Of Russian Billionaires’ Money
As the United States and its allies intensified sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, the US Justice Department reports the creation of a new task force that will go after crypto exchanges ...
Russian Cryptocurrency Volumes Across Several Exchanges Dip By 50%
Regardless of the growing economic sanctions against Russia, the volume of cryptocurrencies bought using Rubles across several major cryptocurrency exchanges plummets drastically. According to data fr...
Russian Stocks to Remain Closed For Third Week Running – Trustnodes
Bitcoin may well become the only game in town in Russia where the Moscow Stock Exchange (MOEX) is to remain closed all this week until at least Monday 21st. Russia’s central bank stated MOEX will not ...
35 Killed, 134 Injured By Russian Missile Strikes Near Polish Border
Follow real-time updates on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A man is taken on a stretcher to Novoiavorivsk District Hospital. Early this morning, a series of … [+] Russian missiles struck th...
ESMA & CYSEC, Russian sanctions, eToro: Editor’s Pick
With the continuing events in Ukraine dominating global news headlines, let’s take a look at the biggest news stories from the worlds of forex, fintech, and crypto, in our best of the week segme...
Russian Elite Liquidate Crypto in Dubai
Crypto firms in Dubai are being bombarded with billion-dollar liquidation requests from Russians seeking financial sanctuary for their wealth. Some wealthy Russians are buying up property in the Unite...
Stablecoin Tether Disregards Ukraine’s Plea to Halt Russian Use
Tie said it sticks to worldwide assets on Russia Ukrainians requested that Tether stop every single Russian exchange USDT Price at the time of writing – $1.00 Tie, the crypto stablecoin that has...
Tether rejects Ukrainian appeal of banning Russian transactions
TL;DR Breakdown Tether stablecoin rejects the Ukrainian plea of banning business with Russia. Tether claims to abide by international sanctions imposed on Russia. The crypto world continues to believe...
Former CIA Analyst Says Crypto Market Not Large Enough To Offset Russian Losses But Small Scale Entities And Oligarchs Could Gain ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     A CIA analyst says the crypto market is too small for Russia to evade sanctions. While oligarchs could practically move small amounts of money, bloc...
Starlink won’t give in to requests for censoring Russian News Sources: says Elon Musk
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that they had been asked by some governments to block Russian news sources. Although he refused to do so. Starlink service was recently activated in Ukraine after t...