Last time I checked from reliable sources, there was only one proposal and it was banning banks from investing in cryptocurrencies or mining cryptocurrencies. It had nothing to do with people and whether they invest in bitcoin or mine it.
More reliable than this?
https://www.cbr.ru/Content/Document/File/132241/Consultation_Paper_20012022.pdfScroll down to 4.2:
Even if Russia will not ban crypto soon, I expect it to do it some time in the future, because much like China they have chosen the road of totalitarianism, so banning crypto will be only logical for them. They probably didn't ban it yet because they are looking at ways to benefit from it, like bypassing sanctions, mining it, using for trade with allies, but none of that actually happened yet.
Every country that is is deep s***t will look at banning it rather than using it, especially ones with wannabe dictators like most of the eastern world is. They have no use for
BTC other than their personal interest and if
BTC could be used by the people of the country for escaping the clutches of their failure of a state then that is a threat that offset any possible gains.
But as always, fortunately, there is always Europe and North America, and 2 more countries in the bottom left where usually there is a flower pot blocking the map)