Chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market Anatoly Aksakov said that the draft law legalizing mining and circulation of cryptocurrencies in Russia has been prepared and is being under consideration by the State Duma.
As part of the bill, in addition to the provisions on the mining of cryptocurrencies, it is allowed to pay for goods and services with digital assets. However, we are only talking about the use of cryptocurrencies to pay for foreign goods – it is still possible to pay within the Russian Federation only in rubles.
“We have introduced a bill that allows you to legalize mining, that is, the issuance and circulation of cryptocurrencies. But cryptocurrencies can only be used as a means of payment outside of our country, in foreign jurisdictions. At the same time, the bill states that if an experimental mode of using cryptocurrencies is implemented, then this is possible, for example, to pay for parallel imports. This is a step that speaks of a new direction in the development of financial markets in our country,” the deputy said.
Recall that on October 19, the State Duma rejected the bill on the legalization of cryptocurrency mining in Russia – a document submitted by the New people”, was considered unfinished.
