{"id":43701,"date":"2021-06-03T14:52:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T11:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=43701"},"modified":"2025-08-31T13:33:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T10:33:25","slug":"duma-signals-possible-inclusion-of-cryptocurrencies-in-the-civil-code-during-the-spring-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/duma-signals-possible-inclusion-of-cryptocurrencies-in-the-civil-code-during-the-spring-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Duma signals possible inclusion of cryptocurrencies in the Civil Code during the spring session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The inclusion of cryptocurrency in the Civil Code of the Russian Federation may be completed by the end of the spring session of parliament, said Pavel Krasheninnikov, head of the State Duma committee on state construction and legislation. This was reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/ekonomika\/11549317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TASS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They want to inscribe cryptocurrency into the part of the Civil Code that concerns objects. According to Krasheninnikov, cryptocurrency is planned to be added to the Code \u201cso that it automatically applies to inheritance relations, in divorces of spouses, bankruptcy, and so on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted that although ruble remains the legal tender, contracts may provide for settlements in cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWe will remove this paradox when cryptocurrency exists and is not regulated,\u201d Krasheninnikov said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Some lawyers were surprised by the legislators\u2019 proposal:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cHow do the authors of the initiative envision a construction in which settlements in cryptocurrency are prohibited and it is not a means of payment, yet \u2018contracts may provide for settlements in digital currency\u2019, with the cryptocurrency recognised as property?\u201d, said ForkLog partner at Digital Right Center Mikhail Tretyak.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In late May, it became known that amendments to the Civil Code could allow the use of <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-proposed-as-a-contractual-payment-instrument-in-russia\">cryptocurrencies as a means of contractual payment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The possible inclusion of cryptocurrency in the Civil Code of the Russian Federation by the end of the spring session of Parliament was announced by Pavel Krasheninnikov, head of the State Duma committee on state construction and legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1451],"class_list":["post-43701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin-regulation-in-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43703,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43701\/revisions\/43703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}