Russia's Ministry of Justice proposed criminal penalties for illegal crypto mining on Dec. 30, 2025. Basic illegal mining faces fines up to 1.5 million rubles or 2 years of forced labor. Large-scale ...

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Russia has extended its cryptocurrency mining restrictions into Moscow, the surrounding Moscow Region and parts of Kursk Region, thereby reducing the mining capacity of one of the major Bitcoin ...

Russia is planning criminal penalties, including forced labor, to curb widespread unregistered bitcoin mining after legalization. Russia is preparing to escalate its crackdown on unregistered ...

Bitcoin mining estimates show a smaller US footprint and a Russian rebound, while geographic concentration changes little and ...

Russia's Ministry of Energy created a registry of cryptocurrency mining equipment to identify and regulate mining operations and bring them under new tax and regulatory rules. The registry has been ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the United States has expressed interest in establishing cryptocurrency mining operations at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP). The statement came ...

Anna Baydakova, Senior Reporter at CoinDesk joins us to talk about Russia's complex relationship with Bitcoin. From Putin's surprising embrace of crypto mining to the grey market of mining rig ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A still image from a video released by Russian state media shows what is said to be a mine found on the hull of the ...

Russian authorities found 95 mining rigs and a mobile transformer in a KamAZ truck illegally tapping power meant for a village in Buryatia. Authorities in Russia’s Republic of Buryatia have uncovered ...