United States law enforcement authorities have arrested a Russian citizen in Los Angeles whose bitcoin mixing platform allegedly helped users launder $336 million over a decade, Reuters reported Tuesday.
Roman Sterligov was the main operator of Bitcoin Fog, a website founded in 2011 to help users anonymize cryptocurrency payments, especially...
Russians began to make online purchases on credit or on the installment plan more often in the first quarter of 2021, according to a study conducted by the analysts of Yookassa. The copy of the study was obtained by TASS.
The data for February-March shows that the volume of such...
Russia has a basis for creating an analogue of the SWIFT payment system, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, Sputnik reports.
“The basis exists. And I am convinced that both the government and the Central Bank should do everything to make this basis reliable and guaranteeing complete independence and...
The share of Russian exports settled in US dollars has dropped below 50%. The decline, recorded in the fourth quarter of 2020, reflects Moscow’s policy of cutting the Russian economy’s reliance on the greenback, RT writes.
A significant portion of the unprecedented drop in the use of US currency was...
The blocking and hunt for all the bookmakers and gambling sites in Moldova continues since March 2021. It started after the amendments to the "On the organization and conduct of gambling" law began to take effect, according to "РК". The state monopoly on gambling in Moldova was introduced in...
Britain announced its first sanctions under a new global anti-corruption regime on Monday, freezing assets and imposing business restrictions on 22 individuals from Russia, South Africa, Sudan and Latin America, The Moscow Times reports.
Those sanctioned include 14 people allegedly involved in the diversion of $230 million of Russian state...
Customs data released on Monday showed that the Chinese capital Beijing saw an 8.75% year-on-year increase in its foreign trade in the first quarter, with the volume totaling 677.37 billion yuan ($104.45 billion), RT informed.
According to the statistics, the city’s imports jumped 9% compared with the same period last...
As global supply chains and trade recover from the pandemic, Russia is planning to expand both exports and imports in 2021 and beyond, a new forecast from the Ministry of Economic Development shows, RT writes.
According to the ministry’s outlook for Russia’s socio-economic development, seen by TASS news agency, outbound...
Russia’s central bank raised its key interest rate to 5% on Friday, a bigger than expected jump against the background of a weak ruble, high inflation and geopolitical risks, signalling that more rate hikes would follow, Reuters reports.
The decision to raise the rate from 4.5% was at odds with...
