55th Separate Artillery Brigade gunners train near Crimea in February 2022. Ukrainian army capture With more and more Russian battalions, warplanes and warships staging along Ukraine’s borders, analys...
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What a Russian invasion of Ukraine would mean for markets as White House warns attack could come ‘any day now’
Investors on Friday got a taste of the sort of market shock that could come if Russia invades Ukraine. The spark came as Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, warned Friday afterno...
Markets Tremble Amid Threat of Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Key Takeaways Crypto and equities markets have suffered distinct losses today amid uncertainty over the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. Although it has not been confirmed that President Vladi...
Russian Figure Skater Failed Drug Test Before Winter Games Debut, Urgent Court Hearing Set To Decide Her Olympics Fate
Topline Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva—who won gold in the team figure skating competition— was allowed by her country’s officials to participate in the Beijing Winter Games despite recently tes...
Breaking: Russian Ruble (RUB) Loses Over 7% As Russia Legalizes Crypto; RUB/USD Price Analysis
Market players are taking some clues from big news that hit the market today. Russia is in preparation to legalize Bitcoin and crypto as a currency this month. As per the reports, the Russian governme...
Figure Skater Kamila Valieva—Gold Medal Favorite—Reportedly At Center Of Russian Drug Scandal At 2022 Olympics
Topline Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva failed a drug test at the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing on Wednesday, Reuters reports citing two Russian media outlets, putting into question the gold meda...
Seized Russian Dark Web Sites—Trump’s Dumps, Ferum Shop—Raked In $263 Million In Bitcoin, Ether And Litecoin Sales From Stolen Credit Cards
Topline Amid a growing wave of cryptocurrency seizures and government cybercrime crackdowns, Russian authorities have taken down massive swaths of the illicit credit card market as the nation looks to...
ECB Tells Banks to Prepare For Russian Cyber Attacks, Bitcoin Unaffected – Trustnodes
The European Central Bank (ECB) has turned its attention to the potential risk of cyber attacks emanating from Russia in the event of an escalation of tensions in Ukraine. Banks have been conducting c...
Russian Government Eyes $13 Billion in Taxes From Crypto Economy – Taxes Bitcoin News
Authorities in Moscow expect to collect more than $13 billion as tax payments from the Russian crypto market, according to a government document quoted by media. The estimate comes as Russian institut...
Russian government and central bank agree to treat Bitcoin as currency
The government and central bank in Russia have reached an agreement on how to regulate cryptocurrencies, according to a Tuesday announcement. Russia’s government and central bank are now working on a ...
Cargoes Of American ‘Freedom Gas’ Help Europe Stay Warm Amid Russian Cutbacks
Chilled to -260 degrees, liquefied natural gas is transported in insulated tankers. getty In recent months Russia’s Gazprom has cut its deliveries of natural gas to Europe by half, to 17% of supply. S...
Russian second-richest man says private cryptocurrencies are “unreliable products”
Vladimir Potanin, the second-richest person in Russia, has advocated for a central bank digital currency (CBDC), saying that it can boost technological innovation. Potanin has also stated that a digit...
Russian Billionaire Vladimir Potanin Says Tokens Will Displace Cryptocurrency
Vladimir Potanin, Russia’s second richest man, and an investor of Atomyze platform for the digitization of physical assets so that users can source, trade and track commodities, said on Monday that to...
Russian lawmaker proposes 15% tax on crypto miners
As per local media reports, one of the leading Russian lawmakers has proposed a minimum 15% tax on crypto miners. Vladimir Gutenev, the head of the state Duma industry committee believes that crypto m...
Move over Bitcoin – Russian billionaire thinks that tokens and the digital ruble will replace it
Vladimir Potanin is the second richest man in Russia. He thinks that the launch of a digital ruble, together with his own licensed tokens, will be able to supplant Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies g...
Ukrainian and Russian Su-25 Pilots Alike Face A Potentially Bloody War
Ukrainian Su-25s. Ukrainian air force The war in Ukraine has been brutal for fighter pilots and helicopter crews whose job it is to provide close air support to front-line ground troops. The sheer den...
Russian Government to Present Regulatory Scenarios for Cryptocurrencies Within a Week, Report – Regulation Bitcoin News
The federal government of Russia should be ready with different regulatory scenarios for the country’s crypto market by the end of next working week, documents from a recent meeting have indicated. Th...
Russian Association of Power Suppliers Proposes Measures to Prevent Home Mining – Mining Bitcoin News
The industry organization of Russian energy suppliers has come up with ideas on how to combat cryptocurrency mining in homes, basements and garages. The association believes the phenomenon is the main...
Russian market runs shortage of mining equipment amidst crypto ban fears
TL;DR Breakdown Russian market runs shortage of mining equipment amid government alarm on crypto bans Supply fails to meet the demand for mining cryptocurrency chips Crypto miners forced to pay higher...
Russia-Ukrain Conflict: Crypto And Stock Prices Collapse As White House Alleges A Russian Plot
Relations between Russia and NATO countries have tensed further as the U.S. has accused Russia of plotting a coordinated operation to precipitate an invasion. In another news, the European Central Ban...
Russian Chamber of Commerce Asks Crypto Mining to Be Recognized as a Business
The head of Russia’s Chamber of Commerce has sent a letter to the country’s Finance Minister. In it, he called for crypto mining to be recognized as a business and for studies of cryptocurrencies as a...
‘It’s Like Russian Weather Roulette’
Irving, Texas, Feb. 3. 2022. Getty Images It’s chilly in Texas, forecast to get down to 27 degrees in Houston and into the teens in Dallas. Some freezing rain fell today, contributing to downed power ...
Wartime Sanctions Could Squeeze Russian Space Programs
A Fregat rocket launches a Glonass-K satellite in October 2020. Roskosmos photo If Russian President Vladimir Putin pulls the proverbial trigger and orders his troops to widen Russia’s war on Ukraine,...
The Russians own 12% of the cryptocurrency market
Russians hold cryptocurrencies worth $214 billion, which is 12% of the entire cryptocurrency market. This explains why the government wants to regulate them but without the crackdown hypothesized by t...
Here’s why the Russian ruble has bounced back
The USD/RUB price continued its deceleration on Wednesday morning as investors focused on the ongoing tensions between Russia and Western countries. The Russian ruble is trading at 76.42 against the U...
Russian Blanket Crypto Ban May now be Limited to PoW Mining Activities
New reports emerging out of Russia now suggest that the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) is looking to amend its proposed plans to enact a blanket bank on digital currencies. Per local news channel, Vc.ru...
How Can Putin Afford War In Ukraine? His $130 Billion Gold Horde Helps
Putin visiting the Central Depository of the Bank of Russia in 2011. AFP via Getty Images How can Russian President Vladimir Putin afford the costs — both direct and indirect — of a new war in Ukraine...
Poll Reveals Russian Public’s Verdict On Crypto Amid Spat With Central Bank
Bitcoin awareness is increasing in Russia, and the government is hard at work in drafting a more definite regulatory environment for the use of crypto by citizens and businesses. As BeInCrypto recentl...
Major Investors Hold Ground on Russian Debt Amid Ukraine Crisis
Tensions over a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine have put international investors on edge. But some are holding on to Russian debt, betting that a diplomatic solution to the crisis could spark a ...
How many Russian Citizens will support the Central bank’s idea of a Crypto Ban?
A few days back Central Bank of Russia suggested banning cryptocurrencies and their operations across the country, but reports and surveys show different opinions of Russian crypto users Concerning c...