Russia’s New Crypto Bill: Will Your Daily Life Soon Involve Digital Rubles and Virtual Vodka?

Enter Anatoly Aksakov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Financial Markets, a title that sounds impressive enough to make you believe he could single-handedly regulate the entire Russian economy with a wave of his hand. He claims this new bill will allow cryptocurrencies to seamlessly integrate into the lives of ordinary Russians. Yes, because nothing says ‘normal’ quite like paying for your blini with a digital currency that fluctuates more than the average Moscow weather forecast.



