As per recent reports, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) and Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) are leveraging Bitcoin to finance covert operations involving teenagers and untrained spies. The findings expose a…
Authorities in Russia’s Republic of Buryatia have uncovered an illegal cryptocurrency mining operation hidden inside a KamAZ truck siphoning electricity meant for a nearby village.Discovered during a routine power line…
The BRICS alliance has catalyzed a significant shift away from US dollar debt and toward RMB bonds, and at the same time, Japan buys Russian oil despite various major international…
A crypto founder has been arrested in New York for allegedly using his crypto firm, Evita Pay, to funnel around $530 million into the US from sanctioned Russian banks to…
The Russian Central Bank has unveiled plans to allow domestic corporations to buy foreign stablecoins, but looks set to bar them from buying USDT and USD Coin (USDC).Per an official…
Regulated forex brokers in Russia have ceased offering customer support via the messaging platform Telegram, following the enforcement of a new federal law at the beginning of June. The law…
Russian law enforcers have started seizing Bitcoin (BTC) from illegal crypto miners, amid a widening crackdown.In a press release from the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee (SKR) for the…
Russian investigators confiscated crypto worth around 649 million rubles ($8.2 million) from the wallets of Dmitry Pavlov, the 35-year-old self-confessed server mastermind behind the Hydra darknet portal.The Russian newspaper Izvestia…