Russia | ForkLog - Part 116

ForkLog 186 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 70 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 66 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 94 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 58 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 76 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 44 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 71 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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ForkLog 43 23.03.2016

Moscow-based Company Attempted to Register “Bitcoin” as a Brand

According to Rospatent, Russian patent bureau, a few days ago Moscow-based M-Group LLC failed to register “Bitcoin” as a brand. The company’s application required to register the trademark for classes 38 and 36 (telecom and financial operations respectively) of the International Classification of Goods and Services. Rospatent rejected to register the trademark as “the provided […]

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ForkLog 69 22.03.2016

Russian Payments System Started Accepting Bitcoins

Russia-based payments system OOOPay has added an option of accepting and withdrawing Bitcoin for users. Sergei Kravtsov, executive director of the company, says Bitcoin withdrawal is presently available via mass payments. A user may personally set up the option in the personal account. The withdrawal is also available by means of currency exchange. “Blockchain technology […]

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ForkLog 132 18.03.2016

QIWI: BitRuble Is Not Subject to Cryptocurrency Ban

March 10, Russian ministry of finance proposed to introduce up to seven years of imprisonment as a punishment for issuance and usage of money surrogates, including Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. ForkLog most certainly recalled QIWI’s project BitRuble, which at first thought is definitely subject to the law in question.

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ForkLog 82 10.03.2016

Russian Ministry of Finance Proposes 7 Years of Imprisonment for Issuance of Cryptocurrencies

Russian ministry of finance proposes to introduce a punishment of seven year-long imprisonment for issuance of money surrogates including cryptocurrencies, Interfax reported with a reference to the agency’s sources in the ministry. The notification as to preparation of relevant amendments to the Criminal Code of Russia was published on March 10 on a site dedicated […]

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