The Russian punk rock collective Pussy Riot plans to launch a DAO that will be promoting LGBTQ+ and women artists.
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Owner of Russian bank Tinkoff acquires Swiss digital asset firm
Russian banks have been increasingly moving into the digital asset market despite the Bank of Russia’s hostility toward crypto.
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Binance taps former central bank exec to push compliance in CIS and Russia
Binance makes another major strategic move in one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency miner regions.
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Power Outages in Russia’s Irkutsk Region Blamed on Home Miners
Russians mining cryptocurrency in their homes have been blamed for the problems with the electricity supply in Irkutsk. Power outages have become a frequent occurrence
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Sberbank Launches First Blockchain ETF in Russia
Russian banking giant Sberbank has presented the country’s first exchange-traded fund (ETF) giving investors access to the blockchain space. The new instrument holds securities of
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Ex-Head of Crypto Exchange Wex Released in Poland
Former chief executive of the Russian cryptocurrency exchange Wex, Dmitry Vasiliev, has been released from arrest in Warsaw earlier this month. The ex-head of the
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