The Russian government is split on a way to address the country’s cryptocurrency business. The central bank of the country wants to outlaw all digital asset ventures completely, while the Finance Mini...
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American Economists Are Baffled by an ‘Unusual Situation’ as Russia’s Ruble Is the World’s Best Performing Fiat Currency – Economics Bitcoin News
Two months after the Russian ruble fell below a U.S. penny, the transcontinental country’s fiat currency is the best performing currency worldwide. American economists are baffled by the “unusual situ...
Russia’s Latest Bill Proposal Could Ban Crypto as a Payment Method
The head of the Russian parliament’s lower chamber (State Duma) – Anatoly Aksakov – presented legislation focused on cryptocurrencies and their employment inside Russia’s borders. If the bill gets app...
With New Tactics, Ukraine Can Break Russia’s Black Sea Grain Blockade
Any of these Black Sea ships, waiting to access a Romanian Port, can carry an anti ship missile. Getty Images In the American Civil War, Southern rebels used all manner of subterfuge to try and break ...
Ukraine’s Cinemas, Museums And Theaters Start Reopening As Russia’s War Targets Cultural Sites
Topline The Theater on Podil in Kyiv, Ukraine, reopened over the weekend for the first time since Russia invaded the country, the Associated Press reports, marking the latest cultural institution in U...
Russia’s Ancient T-62 Tanks Are On The Move In Ukraine
T-62s in southern Ukraine. Social media capture After losing more than 700 of its best T-72, T-80 and T-90 tanks in Ukraine in the first three months of fighting, the Russian army got pretty desperate...
Russia’s Industrial Giant Rostec Announces Blockchain-Based Alternative to SWIFT – Coinotizia
Rostec, the Russian manufacturing and technology conglomerate, has developed a system allowing the processing of international settlements and storage of digital currency. The blockchain-based platfor...
Russia’s Industrial Giant Rostec Announces Blockchain-Based Alternative to SWIFT – Finance Bitcoin News
Rostec, the Russian manufacturing and technology conglomerate, has developed a system allowing the processing of international settlements and storage of digital currency. The blockchain-based platfor...
Russia’s Invasion is Litmus Test for Cryptocurrency Exchanges.
54 seconds ago | 2 mins read Exchange News Cryptocurrency is a value reservoir, unaffected by fiat and government policy instruction. Russia’s central bank accepts crypto payments. To defend against R...
How Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Is a Litmus Test for Cryptocurrency Exchanges
This is a principled stand, and it is consistent with the guiding ethos of the cryptocurrency community. After all, these markets serve as an alternative to those dominated by governmental policy inte...
Russian Space Ship Docks On International Space Station Despite Russia’s Threats
Topline An unmanned Russian cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station on a supply mission Friday at 9:02 a.m., a typically routine mission that carried weighty significance amid Russia’s o...
Russia’s central bank considers crypto for global commerce, not for citizens
According to a senior slope official, Russia is open to using cryptocurrencies for global payments. First Deputy Governor Ksenia Yudaeva said in a sign of a possible relaxation of its opposition to di...
Russia’s Central Bank Makes U Turn about Crypto Usage in International Payments
As a change of tune, Russia’s central bank is relieving its previous tough stance about cryptocurrencies by allowing their usage in international payments, as reported by Reuters. The First Deputy Gov...
These charts show Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has changed global oil
European Union leaders reached an agreement this week to ban the majority of Russian crude oil and petroleum product imports, but nations were already shunning the country’s oil, altering global...
Russia’s Crypto Miners Consume Over 2% of Electricity, Estimates Suggest – crypto.news
According to a recent report, the share of crypto miners in Russia’s electricity consumption has exceeded 2%. The country’s technology ministry is now calling for the sector’s regulation. Russia’s Cry...
Russia’s Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Calls For Regulation on Mining Activities
9 hours ago | 2 mins read Editors News Shpak believes in bringing the sector into the open and making it accountable. Russia’s parliament was presented with a measure to accomplish legitimizing in lat...
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...
Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Needs Boats. Captured Ukrainian Vessels Might Be Just The Thing.
An ex-Ukrainian ‘Gyurza’ in Russian service. Photo via social media The Russian navy’s battered Black Sea flotilla is so desperate for hulls that it’s begun putting its sailors on boats it...
Russia’s updated crypto mining bill cuts tax amnesty for Bitcoin miners
In less than a month, the draft of a crypto mining bill in the Russian parliament has lost several key points, such as the obligation for mining operators to join a special registry and a one-year tax...
Latest EU Sanctions Target Different Set Of Russia’s Business Elite
A man walks outside the headquarters of Yandex company, Russia’s internet search engine, in Moscow. … [+] The company’s shares were halted in New York and its cheif executive is sanc...
Russia’s oldest prison turned to crypto mining farm
Law enforcement officials have uncovered an illicit crypto mining business at Russia’s oldest penal institution. The deputy warden of Moscow’s Butyrskaya prison has been charged with creating the mini...
Saudi Arabia signals support for Russia’s role in Opec+ as sanctions pressure mounts
Saudi Arabia has signalled it will stand by Russia as a member of the Opec+ group of oil producers despite tightening western sanctions on Moscow and a potential EU ban on Russian oil imports. Prince ...
Crypto Mining Farm Uncovered in Russia’s Oldest Prison – Mining Bitcoin News
Russian law enforcement officials are investigating a crypto mining operation at Butyrka, Russia’s oldest prison. A deputy warden has been accused of stealing electricity to mint digital coins with th...
Anonymous Allegedly Hacks Sberbank, Russia’s Largest Bank – Bitcoin News
Hacktivist collective Anonymous has allegedly breached the systems of one of the largest financial institutions in Russia, Sberbank. The attackers announced on social media they have published thousan...
Are Russia’s New Drone Killing Lasers Effective Weapons or A Sign of Desperation?
A picture taken on March 22, 2022 shows a downed Russian drone in the area of a research institute, … [+] part of Ukraine’s National Academy of Science, after a strike, in northwestern Kyi...
Inflation in Canada and US, Russia’s Crumbling Economy, and Tech Stocks Underperforming in China – crypto.news
Inflation fears continue to rise in the US as stocks fall sharply, losing earnings, and growth stagnates. This is the most significant daily drop in US stocks in over two years. Bloomberg noted that i...
Russia’s First Digital Financial Assets Expected This Year, Lawmaker Says – Finance Bitcoin News
The first digital financial assets based on Russian blockchains may be issued as early as this year, a high-ranking parliamentarian announced. Three platforms are already registered as issuers, said A...
Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine Fueling ‘Catastrophic’ Malnutrition Among Children, Unicef Warns
Topline Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is fueling a “catastrophic” wave of malnutrition among young children, the United Nations’ children’s agency agency warned on Tuesday, urging governments to do mor...
Russia’s Invasion Kills Nord Stream 2 And Gives Rise To Renewables
TOPSHOT – The body of a Russian serviceman lies near destroyed Russian military vehicles on the … [+] roadside on the outskirts of Kharkiv on February 26, 2022, following the Russian invas...
Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Has Broken Russia’s Siege Of Kharkiv
Russian infantry mobility vehicles GAZ Tigr destroyed as a result of fight in Kharkiv, located some … [+] 50 km from Ukrainian-Russian border, on February 28, 2022. – (Photo by SERGEY BOBO...
A Journalist Just Spotted Russia’s ‘Admiral Makarov’ Frigate, Intact And At Sea
‘Admiral Makarov’ before the war. Photo via Wikimedia Commons H.I. Sutton, an independent journalist focusing on naval warfare, has spotted more than a dozen of the Russian Black Sea Fleet...
Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Started The War With Eight ‘Raptor’ Patrol Boats. It Might Have Three Left.
A ‘Raptor’ patrol boat. Photo via Wikipedia In 10 weeks of fighting, Ukraine’s TB-2 drones and anti-tank missile teams have wreaked havoc on the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s patrol boat floti...