He also said that the government will work together with Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum platform to improve the government's system.
Now, authorities say that bitcoin and other digital currencies will be legally regulated from exchange to mining.
"We have agreed on the following: the state should regulate the process of issuing cryptocurrencies, the process of mining, the process of circulation…The state should head this situation and regulate it legally." -Anton Siluanov, Finance Minister of Russia.
See here: https://news.bitcoin.com/putin-confirms-russia-regulate-cryptocurrencies
This is somewhat a good stand by the Russian government which might be favorable for Bitcoin but once they regulated cryptocurrency it will be somehow centralized in nature.