Russia | ForkLog - Part 118

ForkLog 33 11.01.2016

Draft Law on Money Surrogates to be Reviewed by the Russian Parliament in February

Members of Russian legislative assembly, the State Duma, may review a new draft edition of the Administrative Violations Code in the first reading as early as this February. The draft law implies de-facto legalization of operations with bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The legislative initiative has been submitted to the State Duma in late 2015. Previously […]

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ForkLog 106 02.01.2016

A Brief History of Russian Internet Obscurantism in 2015

The year 2015 was marked as the year of expanding obscurantism and controversies around several internet-related issues in Russia. According to one of relatively new Russian laws, the state supervising agency Roskomnadzor has the right to restrict or prohibit access to any website at its own discretion and without any court rulings. The agency was […]

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ForkLog 47 27.12.2015

Yandex Technology Distribution Executive Praises the Blockchain Technology

Speaking at conference Feedback on December 23, Grigori Bakunov, technology distribution executive at Yandex, introduced several possible major technological trends for the forthcoming years. Among other things, they include the blockchain technology, the internet of things, and artificial intelligence. Explaining his views on smart objects and bitcoin, Bakunov said: “Thank god, people realized bitcoin was […]

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ForkLog 79 27.12.2015

Russian Business Daily Calls Russia to Embrace Cryptocurrency

Pavel Cherkashin, an angel investor and a partner at Vestor.In Partners, wrote an article for Russia’s most popular business newspaper Vedomosti. There he describes cryptocurrency in general and points out lots of its advantages as compared to the traditional banking system. Cherkashin stated that, according to expert opinions, at least 10% of the global GDP […]

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ForkLog 38 25.12.2015

Putin Presented with a Roadmap for Blockchain Regulation

Russian Internet Development Institute (IDI) offered the president Vladimir Putin a roadmap regulating implementation of blockchain technology. Moreover, the roadmap includes proposals as to crowd-funding and crowd-investment, facilitate taxation of freelancers, and withdraw limitations on anonymous payments for tax and loan purposes.

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ForkLog 35 21.12.2015

Russian Ministry of Communications to Research Blockchain Technology

According to Russian minister for communications, Nikolay Nikiforov, options of using bitcoin’s underlying technology of blockchain to the benefit of the state should be scrutinized. He told that on the sidelines of “Internet Economy” forum on December 21.

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ForkLog 286 20.12.2015

A Draft Bill Implying Bitcoin Legalization Introduced in the Russian Parliament

December 18, a draft code implying penalization of issuance and exchange of, and operation with “money surrogates”, was introduced to the Russian Parliament, the State Duma. Russian authorities were going to equal cryprocurrencies to the said surrogates, and even introduce criminal and administrative punishment for any operations related thereto.

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ForkLog 77 19.12.2015

Russian Anti-Censorship NPO Proposes Users to Join Its Unbanning Efforts

Following the notorious court ruling as to the â€śeternal banâ€ť of several Russian websites, including extremely popular BitTorrent tracker Rutracker.org, RosKomSvoboda, The Center for Protection of Digital Rights, and some activists initiated a campaign titled â€śThe Battle of Runetâ€ť. The campaign provides for consolidation of efforts of those thinking the so-called â€śanti-piracy lawâ€ť violates their […]

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ForkLog 55 17.12.2015

Russian Ministry of Finance: Development for Blockchain, and Ban for Bitcoin

Interest towards blockchain in Russia continues growing, while bitcoin still faces the perspective of banning. Russian Ministry of Finance confirmed its intent to ban cryptocurrency in an exclusive comment to ForkLog.

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ForkLog 36 16.12.2015

Story: How I used Bitcoins to Help an Imprisoned Friend

DISCLAIMER: This material was written by one of our readers. ForkLog disclaims all and any responsibility related to any events or anything described therein by the writer. Following the writer’s request, we do not disclose their personal data in the site’s materials. Recently I faced an uncommon problem of helping a friend imprisoned for possession […]

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ForkLog 59 14.12.2015

ChangeTip has blocked account of ForkLog Magazine due to US sanctions against Russia

A few days ago we have noticed some issues in service functioning as it became impossible to send tips via site button. Shortly after that, when we tried to log in into our ChangeTip account, we got the message that our account has been suspended. Then we contacted ChangeTip’s helpdesk and their answer was that […]

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ForkLog 60 10.12.2015

Russia’s Biggest Bank Considers Implementation of the Blockchain Technology

Sberbank, Russia’s biggest state-owned bank, is planning to join R3 in order to develop its services with the blockchain technology. This was announced by the bank’s deputy chairman, Leo Khasis, in an interview to Kommersant.

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