{"id":54245,"date":"2021-12-07T15:29:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T13:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=54245"},"modified":"2025-09-03T19:28:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:28:46","slug":"russian-bar-association-issues-guidance-for-bitcoin-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/russian-bar-association-issues-guidance-for-bitcoin-miners\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Bar Association Issues Guidance for Bitcoin Miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrency mining activity carries a high level of risk. This <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kSpS15Y4hmw\\\">stated<\/a> by Elena Avakyan, vice-president of the Federal Bar Association of Russia, in an interview with lawyer Anna Kostyra.<\/p>\n<p>Avakyan noted that there is currently no law governing mining activity in Russia, and no rules for the taxation of digital financial assets have been adopted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u201cIn this regard, mining on the territory of the Russian Federation is possible with a properly structured compliance-management system, with a clear understanding of current and future risks,\u201d said the vice-president of the Federal Bar Association.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She also advised preparing in advance justification for the legality of the sources of funds used to mine cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in November, representatives of several ministries supported the initiative to regulate <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/russian-authorities-back-plan-to-classify-mining-as-entrepreneurial-activity\">\u043c\u0430\u0439\u043d\u0438\u043d\u0433\u0430 \u043a\u0430\u043a \u0432\u0438\u0434\u0430 \u043f\u0440\u0435\u0434\u043f\u0440\u0438\u043d\u0438\u043c\u0430\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0439 \u0434\u0435\u044f\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Bank of Russia spoke out <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bank-of-russia-opposes-bitcoin-payments-domestically\">against any \u00ab\u0438\u043d\u0438\u0446\u0438\u0430\u0442\u0438\u0432<\/a>, contributing to the appearance of monetary surrogates\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>Mining in Russia is not prohibited at present, but its regulation is not codified.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog\u2019s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 crypto news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrency mining activity carries a high level of risk. This was stated by Elena Avakyan, vice-president of the Federal Bar Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54246,"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":[1137,1138,36,27],"class_list":["post-54245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-opinions","tag-regulation","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54245","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=54245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54247,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54245\/revisions\/54247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}