{"id":53689,"date":"2021-11-29T09:53:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T07:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=53689"},"modified":"2025-09-03T16:27:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:27:28","slug":"survey-46-of-russian-retail-investors-view-cryptocurrencies-as-a-defensive-asset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/survey-46-of-russian-retail-investors-view-cryptocurrencies-as-a-defensive-asset\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: 46% of Russian retail investors view cryptocurrencies as a defensive asset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrencies have become one of the most sought-after investments among retail investors in Russia, according to results of a survey by the Investing.com portal, <a href=\"https:\/\/iz.ru\/1255836\/mariia-kolobova\/monetnyi-vzor-46-nekvalov-v-rossii-vidiat-v-kripte-zashchitnyi-aktiv\">\u00ab\u0418\u0437\u0432\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0438\u044f\u00bb<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The survey involved 1,000 Russian investors. 46% of them view cryptocurrencies as a possible defensive asset. Anastasia Kosheleva, head of Investing.com in Russia, noted that traditionally such an asset has been real estate, but digital currencies are the clear trend of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, Russians&#8217; investments in cryptocurrencies have risen roughly sixfold, said Vladimir Ananyev, an analyst at Exante.<\/p>\n<p>In October the State Duma signaled a possible <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/russia-could-curb-non-qualified-investors-exposure-to-crypto-assets\">restriction on investments<\/a> in crypto assets for non-qualified investors. Earlier the Central Bank <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bank-of-russia-sets-limit-on-cfa-purchases-by-non-qualified-investors\">set such a limit<\/a> on the purchase of digital financial assets.<\/p>\n<p>According to data from the Bank of Russia, Russian residents are among the most active participants in the cryptocurrency market, with the value of their cryptocurrency transactions totaling about $5 billion annually.<\/p>\n<p>Brand Analytics specialists named among the <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/experts-name-the-most-popular-cryptocurrencies-among-russian-social-media-users\">most popular digital currencies among social-media users in Russia<\/a> Bitcoin, Tether and Litecoin.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrencies have become one of the most sought-after investments among retail investors in Russia, according to results of a Investing.com portal survey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53690,"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":[167,27],"class_list":["post-53689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-research","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53689","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=53689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53691,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53689\/revisions\/53691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}