Some $158 billion worth of illicit crypto traded last year, and much of that activity came from just one source: a ruble-pegged stablecoin with ties to Russia.

Russian court seizes assets in corruption case involving cryptocurrency.

The rise of the Russian ruble in 2025 was far from a minor financial detail. Against all expectations—amid strict sanctions, the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war, and falling oil revenues—the ruble ...

Elliptic says the ruble-pegged A7A5 processed nearly 250,000 onchain transactions, demonstrating how stablecoins facilitate ...

Russia’s ruble-backed stablecoin A7A5 has surpassed more than $100 billion in transactions in less than a year.

The monetary authority in Moscow is now working to convince Russians that its upcoming digital ruble will actually make them ...

Last year, Cryptopolitan reported that Russia’s currency won a race no one expected it to enter. The ruble has beaten every ...

Russian authorities are trying to stem panic over the ruble's sharp fall this week, with the central bank stepping in to suspend the currency in a situation, while Kremlin flagged an unnecessary ...

The lead story on the front page of Tuesday's edition of Moskovskij Komsomolets, a major state-run newspaper in Moscow, is the uproar over the rising price of potatoes. One lawmaker is calling on the ...