Russia Bans Mobile Payment to Bitcoin-Accepting Presidential Candidate
The Central Bank of Russia has officially requested Yandex, the largest Internet company in Russia, to disallow Alexei Navalny, a Russian lawyer and financial activist who is running a presidential campaign in 2018, from raising funds using the Yandex payment application. Yandex N.V. operates the largest search engine and provides the most widely used financial service in Russia. It controls over 60 percent of the Internet market share and serves over 55 mln active users. Its financial application is used by the general Russian consumer base to process basic payments, from salaries to....
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Two-Tier Exchange Rate Regime Attacked
A candidate in Nigeria’s upcoming presidential elections, Peter Obi, has said the local currency’s official exchange....