Olive Allen, a Russian national and artist who has lived in the United States for more than 11 years, has burned her mother country’s passport in the hopes of raising awareness and funds related to th...
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The Worst Is Yet to Come for Russia’s Economy. 50-50 Odds on a Russian Bond Default.
The Kasimovskoye underground gas storage facility, operated by Gazprom, in Kasimov, Russia. Russia is under unprecedented sanctions from much of the global economy. Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg Text size ...
13 Stocks That Have Too Much Russian Exposure—and 6 Stocks That Could Benefit
Text size Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images U.S. companies are fleeing Russia, something that could create headwinds going forward. For companies in countries that haven’t imposed sanctions, h...
The Cryptocurrency Conflict Of Russian Kleptocrats Avoiding Compliance Sanctions
Kraken, a large crypto platform, said it won’t close Russian accounts unless the company is legally … [+] forced to do so, CEO Jesse Powell said via Twitter. Powell tweeted, “Our mission a...
Switzerland Says It Will Freeze Russian Crypto Assets: Report
According to a report Friday from the Financial Times, the Swiss federal government plans to freeze crypto assets owned by Russian citizens and businesses held within Switzerland’s borders. The ...
South Korean Exchanges Block Russian IP Addresses
Key Takeaways Several South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges have imposed bans on Russian users, according to The Korea Times. Upbit, Coinone, Bithumb, Korbit, and Gopax have taken those measures, broa...
Coinbase CEO says the exchange will not halt services to Russian users
There have been concerns that Russia could use cryptocurrencies to avoid the sanctions imposed on the country by the US and its allies. The Ukraine vice prime minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, had urged all...
Reactions against Russia continue: largest South Korean exchanges block Russian IP’s
Russia invaded Ukraine 7 days ago, and the world continues to show its reaction. As Russia relied on cryptocurrencies to combat economic isolation and its citizens relied on Bitcoin against the fallin...
CEXs refuse blanket asset freeze of all Russian users, though questions linger
Centralized exchanges (CEX) and CEOs from companies such as Binance, Coinbase and Kraken have all stated they would only freeze the assets of Russian clients specifically targeted by Western sanctions...
Leading South Korean exchanges to block Russian users
Some of the largest cryptocurrency brokerage firms in South Korea are reportedly blocking the IP addresses of Russian users. These exchanges are joining the US and other Western countries on imposing ...
Consumer Companies React To Russian Conflict In Ukraine
Getty Images Takeaways Major consumer companies are pulling products and services out of Russia The stances some companies are taking (or not taking) have the potential to rouse investors Investors sh...
Does Lukoil Use Russian Oil? Americans Are Boycotting Gas Stations.
Text size A petrol tanker delivers fuel stores to a Lukoil gas station. Oliver Bunic/Bloomberg First, it was vodka. Now it’s gas stations. Americans are calling for the boycott of some of Russia’s bes...
Bitcoin Topples War-Torn Russian Ruble For The Third Time In Significant Crypto Demand Boost ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     Bitcoin topples the Russian Ruble for the third time in the decade. Shackled off the $750B resistance, BTC aims again for $1 trillion. Transaction fe...
Russian oligarchs probably aren’t using crypto to evade sanctions after all
In a twitter post earlier today, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong cast doubt on whether Russian oligarchs would actually use crypto, saying that the open, and transparent nature of digital ledgers made it...
Coinbase says it will ban Russian users from its platform only if required by law
Coinbase will not be instating sanctions against its Russian users, its CEO Brian Armstrong said earlier today. Armstrong addressed the ongoing issue of banning Russian citizens from accessing cryptoc...
Coinbase CEO Doubts Russian Oligarchs Will Turn to Crypto
Key Takeaways Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has responded to the spreading fears that Russia could use cryptocurrencies to skirt sanctions. He said there wasn’t a high risk of Russian oligarchs u...
Major exchanges in Korea block Russian IP addresses
TL; DR Breakdown Four major South Korean exchanges have begun to block Russian IP addresses. The Ukrainian and US government urged exchanges to block Russian users amid sanctions. Coinbase and Binanc...
Binance Puts Restrictions on Cards From Russian Banks
The stance taken by crypto projects earned greater importance in the war between Russia and Ukraine. Ever since the war was declared, the mobility of cryptocurrencies increased by a greater degree in ...
Russian oil has Europe in ‘stranglehold’: Bill Browder
The sanctions regime slapped on Russia by the US and its allies continues to feature one glaring omission: an embargo on oil and gas, which accounts for nearly half of Russia’s export revenue. W...
Coinbase Won’t Be Banning All Russian Users Says CEO Brian Armstrong
After two crypto exchanges Binance and Kraken refused a blanket ban on Russian users, Coinbase to joins them! An hour back, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong confirmed that they are not considering banning...
Russian crypto volume across major exchanges plunges by 50%
Data from blockchain-analysis firms show that Russian denominated crypto purchasing and trading on major exchanges have faltered, debunking theories that the country will pivot to digital assets to ci...
How Europe could quickly cut its Russian gas use by a third — Quartz
The EU continues to spend hundreds of millions of dollars per day on gas imports from Russia, even as European sanctions kick in and a growing list of Western energy companies cut their ties to Russia...
Russian investment expert drinks to ‘death’ of markets, says he’ll go back to being a Santa Claus
The founder of a leading algorithmic fund in Russia pulled out a bottle, drank to the “death” of the country’s stock market and said he planned to pivot to a career as a dress-up Santa Claus during a ...
Despite The War And Sanctions, Bitcoin Has Surpassed The Russian Ruble
Since the adoption, the Ukrainian government has received more than $10 million in cryptocurrency donations from around the world to help it fight the conflict. Several NGOs in the nation have also se...
EU Monitor Crypto Exchanges To Ensure Russian Sanctions Implementation
EU is working to ensure that digital assets should not bypass sanctions imposed by the alliance opposing Russia, Brune Le Maire, prime minister of France, told on Wednesday, March 02, 2022. An allianc...
Governments are on high alert for crypto in Russian sanctions evasion that nobody has seen yet
Public figures in the US and Europe have spoken with growing alarm about the threat of Russian sanctions evasion via crypto. As it stands, those fears remain unsubstantiated. The US, EU, UK, and the ...
Russian Revolut CEO: criticized the war and stood to support Ukraine
Nikolay Storonsky, the Russian CEO of Revolut, has written a letter criticizing the violence in Ukraine. Revolut had taken action, allowing clients to donate to relief efforts in Ukraine via its app a...