Russia | ForkLog - Part 115

ForkLog 74 12.05.2016

Russian Parliamentary Candidate to Promote Bitcoin Legalization

Alexey Bragin, board member of Blockchain.community and coordinator at ReactOS, has confirmed he intends to stand as a parliamentary candidate to participate in primary elections in order to partake in elections for the Russian Parliament, the State Duma, this September.

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ForkLog 111 28.04.2016

Russia’s National Settlement Depository Successfully Tests Blockchain-based E-Voting System

National Settlement Depository has finalized development and successfully tested blockchain-based E-proxy voting electronic voting system’s prototype.

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ForkLog 58 27.04.2016

Russian Federal Financial Monitoring Service Says Bitcoin Ban Bill Should Be Revised

Pavel Livadny, deputy director of Federal Financial Monitoring Service of Russia (Rosfinmonitoring), has suggested that the bill implying ban of cryptocurrency in Russia will have to be revised.

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ForkLog 89 27.04.2016

Russian Central Bank Wants to Separate Blockchain from Bitcoin

Vadim Kalukhov, head of newly established Department of Financial Technologies, Projects, and Process Organization of the Bank of Russia, has confirmed the regulator’s interest for blockchain technology. In his interview with FutureBanking Kaluhkov, however, insists that terms “bitcoin”, “blockchain” and “distributed ledgers” shall be approached separately.

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ForkLog 174 21.04.2016

Leaked Letter: Russian Parliament to Hold a Cryptocurrency Conference

On 2 June 2016, Russian Parliament, the State Duma, will hold an international conference titled “Electronic Currency in Light of Contemporary Legal and Economic Challenges”. The letter describing the forthcoming event was signed by deputy chairman of Duma’s committee for security and anti-corruption Andrey Lugovoy.

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ForkLog 58 19.04.2016

Bank of Russia Open to Idea of National Digital Currency

Speaking at the conference titled “Blockchain and Open Platforms” held by Bankir.ru, Olga Skorobogatova, deputy chairwoman of the Bank of Russia, told about possible development of digital national currencies and banking industry’s interest to distributed ledgers.

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ForkLog 55 18.04.2016

Russian Investigative Committee’s Head Says Cryptocurrencies Are Threatening Country’s Financial Stability

In a major article on ‘hybrid war’ which he believes the US wages against Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, head of Russian Investigative Committee, claimed that cryptocurrencies may supersede real money from the market.

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ForkLog 81 18.04.2016

Bitcoin Trademark Officially Registered in Russia

Leader of Russian Blockchain.community and founder of fintech accelerator Alex Fork has registered Bitcoin as a trademark. As PLUSworld.ru reported, Bitcoin’s certificate of the trademark is numbered 552645. It is owned by Bitcoin LLC founded by Alex Fork. According to Fork himself, the patent expires on December 30, 2023. However, he said he wants to […]

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ForkLog 49 13.04.2016

Bitcoin Enthusiast Intends to Enter Russian Parliament to Defend Technological Innovations

Bitcoin enthusiast Alexei Bragin, earlier engaged in ReactOS and tutoring at Moscow State Technical University, decided to enter Russian parliament to defend “the interests of science and small businesses”.

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ForkLog 69 13.04.2016

Russia Intends to Launch a Blockchain Project to Identify Bank Customers

Russian developers used blockchain technology to implement several pilot projects on biometric identification for bank customers. The projects were the subject of discussion at early April’s meeting of “Internet + Finance” group. Attending the meeting were Pavel Pugachyov, deputy head of Russian President’s directorate for Development of IT and E-Democracy, Andrei Romanenko, head of “Internet […]

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ForkLog 41 12.04.2016

Bank of Russia Concedes Using Blockchain Technology to Issue Smart Bonds

April 12, in the course of Exchange Forum 2016 in Moscow, head of Bank of Russia’s department for financial market development Yelena Chaikovskaya told that the Central Bank was watching the blockchain technology closely, and the attention was rather positive. Moreover, she said, blockchain may be used in the Central Bank’s project for bondization in […]

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ForkLog 63 08.04.2016

Speaker at Bitcoin Conference Moscow Claims He Intends to Bring Vitalik Buterin to Russia

In the course of Bitcoin Conference Moscow, currently occurring in Russia’s capital, one of speakers stated he intends to bring Ethereum’s founder Vitalik Buterin to Moscow.

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