▫️LEGALIZATION OF CRYPTO MINING IN RUSSIA: IN THE NEAR FUTURE ▫️

Anatoly Aksakov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market, announced that a working group on the legalization of crypto mining and handling of cryptocurrencies is starting work.

The group is being formed and meetings will begin in the near future.

Aksakov says that he is positive about that:"I think that we have gray unregulated zones associated with the issuance, circulation of cryptocurrencies, taxation, transactions with cryptocurrencies. Therefore, in my opinion, the decision to create a group is correct."

The chairman of the Duma Committee will also participate in the work of the group.

MP Andrei Lugovoy (LDPR faction) proposed to create an inter-committee working group on the basis of the Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption. He explained that miners annually enrich themselves by $2 billion at the expense of the population and don’t pay taxes.

Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin approved the creation of a working group on November 11.

And the deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Anton Gorelkin in his  Telegram channel even suggested the Irkutsk region as a pilot region for removing miners from the "gray zone".