Russia | ForkLog - Part 113

ForkLog 78 25.08.2016

Moscow’s Active Citizen Project to Implement Blockchain

Speaking at the meeting with the Russian president’s administration, Deputy Director of Moscow’s IT Department, Andrei Belozerov, stated that they were ready to implement blockchain technology in the project dubbed Active Citizen.

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ForkLog 86 12.08.2016

Russia Abandons Bitcoin Penalization Plans

According to Interfax, which in its turn references to its own unnamed sources close to the Russian government’s financial departments, Russian authorities have ditched the idea of penalizing bitcoin operations.

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ForkLog 48 11.08.2016

Russian Tax Authorities Recommend Reporting Bitcoin Operations

This May, Russia’s Federal Tax Service (FTS) received an internet request from a cryptocurrency user who asked it to clarify whether it’s necessary to provide reports on cryptocurrency buy/sell operations between residents and non-residents. The FTS’s response outlines some interesting issues in this grey legal zone.

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ForkLog 87 10.08.2016

Blockchainization of Kolionovo Farm Halves the Prices for Its Products

According to the head and founder of Kolionovo farm Mikhail Shlyapnikov, blockchanization and real-life operation of the farm in ‘friends only’ mode, the organization managed to halve its retail prices for loyal customers.

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ForkLog 271 07.08.2016

Bitcoin and Blockchain to Be Used for Bypassing Economic Sanctions in Donetsk

International organization called DAO Donbass is about to launch operations in Ukrainian city of Donetsk, which currently is uncontrolled by Ukraine’s government. The company’s plans suggest using bitcoin and blockchain to bypass economic sanctions imposed due to the ongoing warfare in the region.

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ForkLog 124 01.08.2016

Farming Business in a Russian Village Transferred onto Blockchain

A farming business located in a small village Kolionovo outside of Moscow has integrated its activities onto blockchain.

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ForkLog 66 28.07.2016

Russia Plans to Become a Blockchain Leader by 2035

According to Russian news agency TASS, the country’s authorities are planning to propel Russia to the top of technologically advanced nations. For that purpose, they created National Technological Initiative focused on long-term strategy of technological advancement.

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ForkLog 55 19.07.2016

Russia Considers Defining Bitcoin As a Foreign Currency

According to Alexei Moiseeev, Russia’s Deputy Finance Minister, the authorities are drafting a new law that would bring bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies under definition of foreign currency.

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ForkLog 85 14.07.2016

Russia’s Party of Growth Leader Says Blockchain Means Living without Lies

Boris Titov, the Presidential Commissioner for Entrepreneurs’ Rights in Russia, insists his country should take advantages of the struggling economic situation in the country by becoming one of the leading nations in the blockchain space.

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ForkLog 65 28.06.2016

Russian Central Bank: Evolution of Fintech Companies Will Cause Bank Affiliations to Disappear

Development of financial technologies and fintech companies will optimize the Russian banking network, while the banks themselves will be engaged in creating infrastructure for fintech companies providing various services to their customers. This is the brief extract of the speech given at Fintech Lab 2016 on June 28 by Vadim Kalukhov, director for financial technology […]

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ForkLog 52 23.06.2016

Russian President’s Internet Advisor Calls Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies a Virus

German Klimenko, internet advisor for Russian president, told TV channel Tsargrad that blockchain technology, as well as cryptocurrency, is but a usual hype related to people’s desire to make profits from a trending theme. “There’s a word, ‘hype’, which means that discussion omits some reasonable issues, or a trending theme, a brain virus. Blockchain and […]

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ForkLog 98 23.06.2016

The Moscow Exchange Joins HyperLedger

The Moscow Exchange has become Russia’s first-ever organization to join an international blockchain consortium.Â The exchange is now a member of HyperLedger, a project headed by the Linux Foundation.

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