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Technologies

Facial Recognition Tech May Be Being Used Against Russian Protestors

Russian police officials may be tracking attendees at pro-Navalny protests using facial recognition tools, detainees claim.

Security cameras outside the Russian parliament building

Marchés

Bitcoin Donations to Navalny Surge After Russian Opposition Leader Is Jailed

Putin's opponent received 3.7 bitcoin in the last week, tripling the amount raised in the first two weeks of 2021.

Protesters demanding the release of Vladimir Putin's critic Alexei Navalny in Moscow, Jan. 23, 2021

Juridique

Russian Public Officials Banned From Holding Cryptocurrency

Russian government officials must dispose of any digital asset holdings before April 1.

Moscow

Marchés

Russia's Sber Bank Files to Launch Its Own Stablecoin

Russia's largest retail bank has applied to become a licensed digital assets issuer.

Sberbank

Juridique

Russian Court Takes Crypto Exchange Binance off Website Blacklist

A court in the Arkhangelsk region ruled last summer Binance should be blocked, but the exchange wasn't notified until months later.

Binance Logo.

Marchés

Russian Oil Drilling Giant Opens a Crypto Mining Farm Run on Gas Energy

Gazpromneft, a subsidiary of Russian oil and gas giant Gazprom, is opening a bitcoin mining venue on one of its oil drilling sites.

gas flaring bakken

Marchés

Digital Currencies May Make SWIFT Redundant, Says Russian Central Bank: Report

Russia would likely welcome replacements for SWIFT as the nation's banks have been threatened with being removed from the network.

Bank of Russia

Marchés

Crypto Exchange Livecoin Begs Users to Stop Trading After Losing Control of Servers

Livecoin asked clients to stop making deposits and trading after suffering a "carefully planned attack."

shadow

Juridique

Bank of Russia Chair: Digital Ruble Is No Threat to Banks

Russian banks are concerned the digital ruble might hurt their business, but the Bank of Russia is nonchalant

Elvira Nabiullina, chair of the Bank of Russia

Juridique

Bitcoin Scam Using Unauthorized Celebrity Images in Ads Traced to Moscow: Report

A Guardian Australia investigation traced the source of a major crypto scam using Google ads to addresses in Moscow.

Moscow, Russia