{"id":585272,"date":"2026-04-17T22:53:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/russia-introduces-bill-to-criminalize-unregistered-crypto-services\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T22:53:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:53:57","slug":"russia-introduces-bill-to-criminalize-unregistered-crypto-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/russia-introduces-bill-to-criminalize-unregistered-crypto-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia introduces bill to criminalize unregistered crypto services"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Russia<\/p>\n

Individuals and groups would be required to register with the Bank of Russia before offering certain crypto services, or potentially face fines and prison time.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s government submitted a bill to its parliament\u2019s lower house in an effort to amend the country’s legal code to attach criminal liability for crypto services offered without regulatory approval or licensing.<\/p>\n

In a draft law sent<\/a> to the State Duma on Friday, Russian lawmakers proposed that entities “carrying out activities related to the organization of digital currency circulation,\u201d that operate without a license from Russia\u2019s central bank, could be subject to criminal liability.<\/p>\n

Without registration with the Bank of Russia, individuals could face up to $4,000 in fines and up to four years in prison, or more severe penalties if part of an organized group.<\/p>\n

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Individuals and groups would be required to register with the Bank of Russia before offering certain crypto services, or potentially face fines and prison time. Russia\u2019s government submitted a bill to its parliament\u2019s lower house in an effort to amend the country’s legal code to attach criminal liability for crypto services offered without regulatory approval […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":585274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-585272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}