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ForkLog 11 27.05.2022

Twitter shareholders sue Elon Musk over market manipulation

Twitter shareholders have filed suit against Elon Musk and the social network over the 'chaotic process' of the takeover. They allege that the Tesla chief violated the law and manipulated the market.

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ForkLog 14 25.05.2022

Russia develops covert system to surveil people via social-media activity

Russia has developed a system of covert surveillance of people in public places, designed to assess the 'degree of danger a person poses to those around them.' The system has already attracted the interest of the security services, said Yuri Anoshko, head of the Radio-Technical Institute named after Academician Mints.

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ForkLog 6 19.05.2022

Lawmakers Submit Bill on NFTs to Russia’s State Duma

The State Duma of the Russian Federation has registered a bill amending the Civil Code to codify the concept of a non-fungible token (NFT).

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ForkLog 8 18.05.2022

State Duma backs first reading of bill taxing digital assets

In the State Duma, the bill on taxing operations with digital financial assets (DFA) was backed in the first reading.

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ForkLog 58 18.05.2022

Creators of map showing leaked Yandex.Eda customer data add leaks from GIBDD, VTB and Avito

Unknown individuals who created a map visualising leaked Yandex.Eda user data have supplemented it with a new portion of information.

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ForkLog 10 09.05.2022

Candidates in Russia must report cryptocurrency holdings abroad

Russian President Vladimir Putin has added data on cryptocurrencies and tokens to the list of information to be checked about candidates' overseas assets. The decree was published on the official portal of legal information.

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ForkLog 19 04.05.2022

Founder of Finiko points to the ‘real culprits’ behind the pyramid’s collapse

The founder of the Finiko financial pyramid, Kirill Doronin, blamed the collapse of the project on people who had access to bitcoin accounts.

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ForkLog 13 03.05.2022

Bankoff suspends operations. Client funds frozen.

On May 3, Bankoff said that Visa and Stripe had suspended servicing its virtual cards by Visa and Stripe.

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ForkLog 9 02.05.2022

Russian businessman Sergey Mendelyev received a letter demanding monthly Monero payments

CEO of Indefibank Sergey Mendelyev received a letter from unknown actors extorting cryptocurrency from him under the threat of false bomb-threat messages in his name.

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ForkLog 7 27.04.2022

Lawmakers propose tougher penalties for crimes involving cryptocurrencies

Lawmakers' council will develop proposals to tighten liability for crimes involving digital currencies, according to Konstantin Tolkachov, head of the council's commission on legislative support for national security and anti-corruption.

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ForkLog 9 27.04.2022

State Duma Committee backs draft tax bill on digital assets

The State Duma Committee on the Financial Markets backed the first reading of the concept of the bill on taxing digital asset transactions.

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ForkLog 10 26.04.2022

Russian Prosecutor-General proposes incorporating cryptocurrencies into criminal law

The head of the Russian Prosecutor-General's Office, Igor Krasnov, stated that digital currencies should be included in criminal law to investigate theft of such assets and enable arrests.

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