bitcoins were "issued" in Russia? lmao i dont think so...
This obviously has no relevance to exchanges or merchants, but it may have implications for miners and full-node operators depending on how much they stretch the definition of "issue." I'd guess running a full node could be considered facilitating a felony (or Russian equiv.). Facilitating the issuance of Bitcoin, or receiving bitcoins issued.... Well, I guess they could probably stretch that to include everyone if they wanted (directly or indirectly increasing the market value of bitcoin, thereby indirectly making the facilitation of currency issuance more lucrative). Gosh - just imagine if a Russian merchant KNEW accepting Bitcoin would make the "facilitation of issuance" more lucrative... that's gotta be execution-worthy.Pre-9/11 in the US, we used to call definition-stretching "legislating from the bench." We now call it "indirect pre-emptive terrorism inhibition." That could mean anything, of course....
