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Chistyukhin: The Central Bank of the Russian Federation intends to allow banks to work with cryptocurrencies
According to Chistyukhin, the Central Bank plans to establish strict requirements, capital restrictions, as well as strict reserve standards.REN TV
In March, the regulator announced that it had sent a proposal to the government to allow transactions with cryptocurrencies for the category of "highly qualified" investors.Interfax
"So that in 2027, appropriate changes will come into force in law enforcement legislation, the administrative code, and the criminal code, which would establish responsibility for the illegal turnover of crypto assets," the expert concluded.Komsomolskaya Pravda
In 2022, the Central Bank of Russia launched a high-profile initiative to ban cryptocurrency mining and operations in the country.Komsomolskaya Pravda

South African court to enforce Russia's decision to recover 10 billion rubles from Google
For the first time, the Supreme Court of South Africa upheld the enforcement of the Moscow arbitration decision in favor of Google's Russian subsidiary in a bankruptcy case.Moskovsky Komsomolets
The bankruptcy trustee demanded to oblige the parent company to return to the bankruptcy estate the amount of dividends received and the amount of taxes related to the payment of dividends in the amount of 10 billion rubles.Vedomosti
The execution of the Russian court's decision "would violate the principles of due process," The Telegraph newspaper quoted the contents of Google's statement of claim on August 20, 2024.Vedomosti
In September, Google LLC waived the requirements to ban Russian media from litigation abroad, which was confirmed by a court in California.Moskovsky Komsomolets

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Trump really doesn't get this diplomacy thing at all, he thinks it's the same as doing NY real estate deals, when you are in a strong position you bullshit and bluster and when you're in a weak position, well then you just bullshit and bluster.

So Trump decided to put a ban on chip exports to China, China responded by tightening the screws on rare earths exports to the US, to which Trump slapped another 100% tariff on Chinese goods and so the S&P tanked 2.5%.

And now Trump is stuck again. The 100% ploy was always just a bluff to get their attention and then agree 20, it worked in 2017 and it worked in the first round of talks in 2025. But it won't work for this, China already called that bluff when Trump tried to use the threat to get China to stop exports to Russia.

The US really needs China's rare earth metals for advanced tech in missiles and fighter jets. Trump says the US has 2x as much rare earths as China and that's true, it's just that in the US they are still in the ground whereas China has them sitting on the shelf.

Rare earths are not rare, they're just very thinly dispersed and very expensive to extract with a lot of costly ecological hurdles to overcome if operating in the western world. Trump is not going to start production in the US anytime soon and China knows it.

Trump really needs a diplomatic team to smooth international negotiations and stop the constant blundering around insulting and upsetting everyone who's not just a sycophant, at this stage almost anyone will do (except perhaps Lyndsey Graham).