Russia Limits Crypto Buyers to $4,000 Annually – Will Others Follow?

Russia’s State Duma plans to finalize legislation by July 1, 2026, establishing a two-tier crypto access system that caps non-qualified investors at 300,000 rubles ($4,000) annually while granting unlimited purchasing power to qualified investors, according to Anatoly Aksakov, head of the State Duma Committee on Financial Markets, in an interview with Parlamentskaya Gazeta. The framework, based on the Bank of Russia’s December concept submitted to the government, treats digital currencies and stablecoins ...