{"id":56260,"date":"2022-01-20T14:30:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T12:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=56260"},"modified":"2025-09-04T05:31:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T02:31:22","slug":"kremlin-declines-to-comment-on-rumors-of-a-full-ban-on-cryptocurrencies-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/kremlin-declines-to-comment-on-rumors-of-a-full-ban-on-cryptocurrencies-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Kremlin declines to comment on rumors of a full ban on cryptocurrencies in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kremlin&#8217;s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, redirected the question about a possible ban on cryptocurrencies in Russia to the central bank, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/ekonomika\/13477629\">\u0422\u0410\u0421\u0421<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThis is not the Kremlin&#8217;s prerogative; it is the prerogative of the megaregulator, so please contact them,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bloomberg, citing its own sources <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/fsb-strikes-deal-with-central-bank-to-ban-bitcoin-transactions-in-russia\">reported<\/a> that the FSB had persuaded the head of the Central Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina, to back a full ban on cryptocurrency operations in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>In December, Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/media-reports-on-plans-by-russias-central-bank-to-ban-investments-in-cryptocurrencies\">wrote<\/a> about the central bank&#8217;s plans to ban investments in crypto assets, and Indefibank CEO Sergey Mendeleev <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/duma-outlines-first-meeting-of-working-group-on-cryptocurrency-regulation\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The central bank itself has not commented on the situation yet.<\/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, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kremlin&#8217;s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, redirected the question about a potential ban on cryptocurrencies in Russia to the central bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56261,"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":[345,1305,1451,27],"class_list":["post-56260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bank-of-russia","tag-bitcoin-ban","tag-bitcoin-regulation-in-russia","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"9","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56260","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=56260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56262,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56260\/revisions\/56262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}