Russia’s use of cryptocurrency to bypass Western sanctions has taken a dramatic turn with a ruble-pegged stablecoin called A7A5. This digital currency has processed over $100 billion in transactions ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has claimed that Russia’s macroeconomic situation remains "reliable and predictable" despite the rouble's collapse and the onset of recession. Source: The Moscow Times, ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian rouble weakened slightly against the U.S. dollar on Monday ahead of Russia-U.S. talks scheduled to take place in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh on February 18. At 0915 ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian central bank said on Wednesday that the rouble's rally since the start of the year was linked in part to geopolitical factors, but it was too early to evaluate the ...

MOSCOW, Jan 3 (Reuters) - The Russian rouble weakened on Moscow's first trading day of 2024 on Wednesday, sliding towards the 92 mark to the dollar and away from the one-month high reached at the end ...

MOSCOW, Jan 5 (Reuters) - The Russian rouble firmed on Friday, moving towards the 91 mark against the dollar in thin holiday trade, supported by relatively high oil prices. Market activity is limited ...