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ForkLog 18 01.04.2022

Senator Elizabeth Warren compared cryptocurrencies to the US mortgage crisis

Senator Elizabeth Warren compared the digital-asset market to the 2008 financial crisis, saying people were confident in perpetual real estate growth.

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ForkLog 4 01.04.2022

Opinion: Mining to become Russia’s export earnings source

Russia has a competitive edge in the mining market and can use it as a source of export earnings, according to Stanislav Akulinkin, the EMCD pool's chief financial officer.

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ForkLog 8 29.03.2022

Two Volgograd residents suspected of organizing illegal mining

In Volgograd, authorities are investigating a corruption scheme related to powering a mining farm.

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ForkLog 6 29.03.2022

Irkutsk region outlines conditions for legalising mining

Cryptocurrency mining in Russia should be regulated to benefit both business and the state, according to Anatoly Nikitin, the minister of housing policy and energy of Priangarye.

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ForkLog 22 28.03.2022

Anonymous-Linked Hackers Breach VGTRK

Hackers affiliated with Anonymous said that NB65, the group linked to them, hacked VGTRK, the All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, and promised to publish the stolen data.

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ForkLog 6 24.03.2022

Opinion: Russia has overtaken China in building internet-blocking systems

Systems built by Roskomnadzor and its subordinate companies for blocking are the next generation of technologies, which are implemented for the same purposes in China. This was stated by IT expert Grigory Bakunov.

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ForkLog 16 24.03.2022

Russia blocks Google News service

Roskomnadzor blocked access to Google's news aggregator in Russia.

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ForkLog 21 24.03.2022

Roskomnadzor re-blocks Meduza, TJournal and Bumaga

At least three independent outlets previously blocked — Meduza, TJournal and Bumaga — have been relisted in the register of blocked media.

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ForkLog 20 23.03.2022

In Russia, organisers of a cryptocurrency pyramid with losses of over 1 billion rubles were detained

FSB officers in Dagestan and the local interior ministry identified suspects behind a financial pyramid that offered investments in digital assets yielding up to 500% per year.

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ForkLog 8 23.03.2022

State Duma requires election candidates to disclose cryptocurrency purchases

The State Duma of the Russian Federation passed a law obliging election participants to disclose data on expenditures for acquiring digital financial assets (DFAs) and cryptocurrencies.

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ForkLog 25 22.03.2022

Federation Council considers banning VPN services; no plan to impose liability for their use

Andrey Klishas, head of the Federation Council committee on constitutional legislation, did not rule out a ban on VPN services that enable bypassing blocks on resources banned in Russia.

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ForkLog 17 22.03.2022

In Russia, suspect detained over embezzlement of WEX cryptocurrency exchange assets.

In the Moscow region, a suspect in the embezzlement of a co-owner of an unnamed cryptocurrency exchange was detained with suitcases of cash. Sources say the case concerns the 'red admin' of WEX, Alexey Biluchenko.

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