I'm from Russia too, and my understanding that the situation is not that bright: they clearly declare that <<bitcoin is "money surrogate" and cannot be used>>(used as money?).
What they _might_ do at some point is in fact allow trading bitcoin itself just like China. They declare that they are concerned "protecting interests of users of cryptocurrencies", so there is hope.
We'll see, so far this has resulted in bc <-> Russial PayPal clones / alternative operations being (willingly, I'm sure) blocked by that exchange site from the top comment.
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I'm from Russia too, and my understanding that the situation is not that bright: they clearly declare that <<bitcoin is "money surrogate" and cannot be used>>(used as money?).
What they _might_ do at some point is in fact allow trading bitcoin itself just like China. They declare that they are concerned "protecting interests of users of cryptocurrencies", so there is hope.
We'll see, so far this has resulted in bc <-> Russial PayPal clones / alternative operations being (willingly, I'm sure) blocked by that exchange site from the top comment.
this smells of old days when ruble collapsed and people started using dollar as a shadow agreed upon currency.