Dear members.
I'm from Russia and we got the government making the law for mining and ICO in june 2018 for legalization and taxes.
And the price for electricity in Moscow region you can find 2-3 rubles it's 3,5-5,1 cents USD.
If you go deep in country there are prices 1 ruble for kWt - it's 1,7 cents!!!
And nowadays many big corporations in my country with factories and stocks, with a lot of electricity are rebuilding them in mining parks.
So for our economics I see it's a very good view in future because a lot of investors are coming here who wants the efficient and legal mining.
I was reading a lot about that matter. Currently legal status of crypto in Russia is not defined at all. There are notions to regulate crypto but those notions are stagnant (as far as I know deadline for legislation proposal was set to October 2017 but later postponed to summer 2018).
Mining equipment is not listed in any registers and legally speaking have as much value as tokens (zero value to be precise).
Electricity is cheap for individual but for people who buying in bulk it's much more expensive (2x-3x).
Overall this means that you may consider building a mining farm (for example somewhere in far east of Russia, close to China to cut logistics of ASIC's) but you should also consider hiring an armed guard to protect it since there is nothing law will do to help you, probably not even in 2018 at the very least.
As for the big corporations building "mining parks" - they not big and what you call parks are individual efforts from irresponsible people praying on "free" electricity. Those are spreading like a plague, but I believe Russia isn't the only country where this business "model" is popular.