CBDC is only an improved form of non-cash payments of states. Cashless payments existed in every state before, and no one wondered when they would replace ordinary paper money. It won't be this time either. Digital money will be another type of non-cash money, and everything will coexist with and together with cryptocurrency this time. Convenience lies precisely in the use of all types of means of payment, but they do not replace each other. After all, each type has its own advantages and disadvantages.

Is Russia trying to defend itself by regularly attacking its neighbors and artificially creating pro-Russian territories there? Now Russia is waging a classic war of conquest in Ukraine. Until now, Russia has not been able to finally decide on the reasons for the attack on Ukraine and is constantly changing them, because all of them do not withstand any criticism. Before the Russian attack in 2014, it had a naval base on the territory of Ukraine, a normal attitude towards everything Russian, including the Russian language on its territory, and now everything Russian is purposefully removed from Ukraine so that there is not even a mention of Russia anywhere. Ukrainians, including even the eastern predominantly Russian-speaking population, are now trying to speak Ukrainian themselves in order to forget about the Russian nightmare that Russia brought to the territory of Ukraine.

NATO is expanding and moving closer to Russia's borders solely because of Russia's aggressive foreign policy. After all, this is the result of the independent choice of a specific country that decides to join this alliance, and not the leadership of NATO. Until 2014, the prospect of Ukraine joining NATO looked very distant and vague, and now there is talk of its admission even this year, despite the hostilities. Sweden and Finland did not plan to join NATO at all, and now Finland is already in NATO, and Sweden still needs to get the consent of only two countries of this bloc.

Information about what the Ukrainian army took up positions on the left bank of the Kherson region. (in particular, that the Armed Forces of Ukraine were seen on the banks of the Dnieper north of Oleshki (7 km southwest of Kherson) and advanced to the northern outskirts of the settlement along the E97 highway west of Dacha (10 km south of Kherson), for the first time reported by the American Institute for the Study war (ISW) with reference to videos of Russian military bloggers with geolocation and text reports.

However, the operational command "South" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was even outraged by such a message, pointing out that the premature announcement of such information could harm the course of this military operation and advised to be patient in order to receive good news when it was safe for the Ukrainian military. Therefore, the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not confirm, but did not refute such information.

Sources:
https://newsua.ru/news/90432-kiev-potreboval-ot-luchshikh-studentov-isw-soblyudat-informatsionnuyu-tishinu-po-povodu-nastupleniya-vsu

https://kordon.org.ua/vvsu-zanyali-platsdarm-na-levom-beregu-hersonshtin-idet-prodvizhenie-k-oleshkam-v-isw.html

https://focus.ua/voennye-novosti/562273-territoriya-uderzhivaemaya-ukrainoy-vsu-zamecheny-na-levom-beregu-dnepra-na-hersonshchine-isw

On April 27, speaking at a joint briefing with the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stated:
“In general, through the contact group led by the United States, NATO allies and partners have provided Ukraine with unprecedented assistance. More than 98% of the combat vehicles promised to Ukraine have already been delivered. This means more than 1,550 pieces of armored vehicles, 230 tanks and other equipment, including a large amount of ammunition.”
According to him, more than nine new Ukrainian armored brigades have been trained and equipped thanks to the support of partners.

That is, almost all the heavy armored vehicles that were promised to Ukraine from NATO countries are already in Ukraine. Yes, most of the received equipment is not directly from the factory conveyor, but the situation in Russia is even worse.

In addition, Stoltenberg added: "This will give Ukraine a strong position for the further reconquest of the occupied territories". As you can see, NATO has no doubts about the successful offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Sources:

https://news.pn/en/politics/290066

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.dp.ru/a/2023/04/27/nato-vooruzhenie-i-podgot&ved=2ahUKEwj4k67S1Mr-AhWDxgIHHZGQDboQFnoECB8QAQ&usg= AOvVaw0sZg-RpBf9TyjW3Twtdbwq

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.belarus.kp.ru/online/news/5246105/&ved=2ahUKEwj4k67S1Mr-AhWDxgIHHZGQDboQFnoECAsQAQ&usg=AOvVaw06uEq-qCOOe426iKICYZBA

By the way, despite the prolonged rainy weather, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are already slowly starting to advance. Now, pinpoint strikes are mainly carried out on accumulations of manpower and equipment, ammunition depots, air defense and MLRS of the invaders are being destroyed. At the same time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have already crossed to the left bank of the Dnieper, seized a bridgehead and are slowly pushing the Russians to the Sea of Azov. Let the soil dry and we'll see.

Russia's military attack on Ukraine had a strong impact not only on the global economy, but also on the overall security of the world. Now humanity is on the brink of a nuclear war, the danger of which comes from Russia.

Russia was counting on an easy walk in Ukraine, but after a year and a series of military defeats, having awakened the beast, it is afraid of the active actions of the Ukrainian army already on its territory. One of the possible versions of the expected offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is an armored strike in the direction of the Russian Tula, given that there are no significant combat-ready units left on the territory of Russia itself that could offer serious resistance, and the civilian population is hardly capable of this. It was in the first days of the war, when about 7,000 different Russian military equipment rushed from Belarus and, due to the short distance, this armada immediately found itself near Kiev, more than 20,000 Kievans picked up machine guns to repel Russian aggression. This is not expected in Russia.

After that, the Russian military command will be forced to randomly organize defense and withdraw its units from the occupied territory of Ukraine. By the way, about 370,000 Russian troops are currently stationed on the territory of Ukraine. About 20,000 more arrive in Ukraine every month. Approximately the same number (that is, about 20,000) Russians are dying in recent months in Ukraine. When Russia weakens the front in the east and south of Ukraine, then the Armed Forces of Ukraine will strike the main blow there. In Russia, this development is clearly aware, so the Kremlin's propagandists are already preparing the Russians for defeat from Ukraine.

The question of the results of the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for China is already closed. They understand that it will be successful. Therefore, they are now trying to protect the Russian army from defeat as much as possible. And the state itself is from collapse. So they will be able to put pressure on Russia to enter into peace talks on Ukraine's terms.

  During a recent visit to Moscow, Xi Jinping and Putin signed an agreement on the non-deployment of nuclear weapons in other countries. But immediately after that, Putin, realizing the catastrophic situation of his army in Ukraine, began to threaten that he would deploy it in Belarus. Therefore, Xi no longer counts on any agreements with Putin. In Ukraine, they have long understood that it is useless to negotiate with Putin, and that he understands only the language of force. And here the positions of Xi Jinping and Zelensky coincide. In addition, China has repeatedly sent signals to Russia about the inadmissibility of using nuclear weapons. It is logical that no one in the world needs such a war.

On April 26, for the first time since the start of a full-scale war, Chinese President Xi Jinping called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
After the conversation, Beijing decided to send its special envoy, Li Hui, to deal with what they call the "crisis." The key events of the war between Russia and Ukraine should take place in the next few months.

The fact that in Russia not only men, but also women are recruited in prisons for the war in Ukraine, there is information from both Russia and Ukraine, and this information is freely available both in the form of text and video on YouTube.
Sources:
https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2023/02/05/the-telegraph-rossiya-verbuet-zhenschin-zaklyuchennih-dlya-lobovih-atak-v-ukraine-a32949

https://www.currenttime.tv/a/olga-romanova/32316840.html

https://24tv.ua/ru/zhenshhiny-armii-rossii-putin-otpravljaet-osuzhdennyh-shtrum_n2301204

So far, there is not much information about such cases, but the situation in the Russian army continues to deteriorate, and the fact that women are already being taken to the front from correctional colonies, even in the occupied territories (from the correctional colony of the city of Snezhnoye in the occupied territory of the Donetsk region, who are sent to the territory of Russia for preparation) speaks volumes.

Yes, the defenders of Bakhmut also note that among the participants in the assault squads from Russia, there were also former female prisoners. Given Russia's serious demographic problem, which even Putin recently described as one of the country's biggest problems due to its drastic population decline, sending women to certain death for Putin's imperial ambitions is, at the very least, very strange. Or is the situation already so hopeless in Russia? I think the situation is only hopeless for Putin, who actually doesn’t give a damn about his citizens, but is there really not a single sane person in Russia who can prevent this? Although Russia is now entirely a country of the absurd.

Private and commercial fiat-backed stablecoins pose a hidden danger to the financial system of states. Any abuse with their release and use will harm the state, and if their market capitalization is several tens of billions of dollars, this will affect the global financial system as a whole. Therefore, it is not surprising that states will strictly regulate, and even prohibit the circulation of such stablecoins. And it is hardly surprising that Japan, which was among the first to legalize cryptocurrencies back in 2017, has a rather negative attitude towards stablecoins.

In Russia, various officials periodically express conflicting opinions about the prospects for the legalization of cryptocurrency in this country. Only the actions of the State Duma of Russia and the Central Bank of this country are clearly aimed at the complete prohibition of the use of cryptocurrency as a means of payment. Today, the use of cryptocurrency as a means of payment is completely prohibited in Russia, and I do not see any changes for the better in relation to cryptocurrency in the foreseeable future in Russia. On the contrary, given the defeat of the Russian army in the war against Ukraine, the increase in spending on the war, the growing budget deficit, the imposition of additional taxes on businesses and citizens, Russia will try to use any means to prevent the flight of capital from the country. Therefore, they are unlikely to legalize cryptocurrency there.

Russia has already tried to declare "war" on the US dollar, especially in the period after the introduction of strong sanctions in the financial sector of the economy. But this further aggravated the deplorable financial situation of the Russian Federation. The transition to rupees in trade with India brought huge losses to Russian oilmen.

As a result of trade with India, Russian oil exporters received large sums of rupees, which, as it turned out, no one needed. Their oilmen are forced to sell at a discount of as much as 10% in order to get at least some revenue.

However, the Kremlin plans to continue to conduct such experiments and instructed Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak to transfer oil trade to Russian rubles and Chinese yuan. Now Indians need somewhere to get rubles or yuan instead of rupees! This is despite the fact that India has a negative trade balance with China and the Russian Federation and has no extra rubles and yuan.
It seems that India may simply refuse to buy Russian oil. The Kremlin, following Europe, will lose another major buyer of its energy resources.

Such calculations are generally incorrect, since gold and bitcoin are incomparable things. They are so different from each other that we can say that they are absolutely opposite, except for the high price. There are a lot of things in the world that are less than 21 million, but this does not mean that they can be more valuable than bitcoin or gold.
The price of bitcoin is determined solely by the ratio of supply and demand. It depends only on these indicators how high it will rise in price and nothing else.

The OP in this thread only pointed out that Russia is close to advancing legislation on the use of cryptocurrencies in international trade. As far as I know, Russia has never legalized cryptocurrency in international trade or in other areas of human activity. That is, there is practically nothing to discuss now. Russia was and is a country where there is actually a complete ban on the use of cryptocurrency as a means of payment, and the situation with respect to cryptocurrency is unlikely to change. They are now panickingly taking all possible measures to eliminate capital flight from the country, and therefore they are unlikely to legalize cryptocurrency.

All participants in the cryptocurrency market live on the territory of a state and are forced to live according to its established norms. Also, probably, no one doubts that almost all exchanges sooner or later will fall under the influence and regulation of states. Therefore, a certain part has already come to terms with this and enjoys a certain protection when using centralized exchanges. Centralization and decentralization will exist together for a long time to come.

Your rumors are incorrect. Now on the Internet in the public domain there are many appeals from groups of mobilized Russians and even entire units who complain that they did not undergo any training and do not know how to shoot, but ended up on the front line and they are being driven to storm the Ukrainian fortifications. They were allegedly told that they would maintain order in the rear of the occupied territories, but they deceived them. There are also numerous statements about this by the wives and mothers of the mobilized.
But the result of the impending offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will put an end to this dispute. If everything is so good in Russian soldiers, they should not retreat in panic from the occupied territories of Ukraine next month, right?

Russia has driven itself into a dead end, from which it will have to get out for years, and maybe decades. Because of the attack on Ukraine and the blackmailing of European countries with the reduction of oil and gas supplies, Russia itself found itself in a trap.
In the first quarter of this year, Gazprom supplied only 6 billion cubic meters of gas to Europe, while in the same period last year this figure amounted to 62 billion cubic meters. Over the past year, the share of Russian "blue fuel" in the European market has decreased from 45% to 7.5%.

The leadership of this Russian company threatened Europe that the price of gas in winter could reach $4,000 per thousand cubic meters. Russian President Vladimir Putin also frightened the Europeans with high gas prices. However, in the last two months, gas in Europe has been trading at $460-570 per 1,000 cubic meters (€40-50/MWh), which has led to lower electricity prices. This was due to the influx of LNG, accelerating the transition to renewable energy and improving energy efficiency.

At the same time, after losing the European market, Russia is forced to sell gas to China at huge discounts. For example, in the second quarter of 2022, gas was sold to the Chinese side at $250 per thousand cubic meters, while fuel cost about $1,000 on European exchanges.

Ethereum was, is and will be the leader of altcoins for a long time. It has a good team and many useful features. Some coins, including BNB, simply copy the functions of ethereum, improving them a little. Now ethereum continues to be updated and improved, and this inspires confidence that this coin will be ahead of all altcoins for a long time to come.

Do not underestimate the ability of states to regulate and ban the circulation of cryptocurrencies. In China, as far as I know, the ban on the use of cryptocurrencies is not formalized by the regulations of the government or the legislature. It was at the level of the Central Bank of China - the People's Bank of China, and this is not the same thing. Therefore, where the banking system cannot control the situation with cryptocurrency, the Chinese are relatively easy to bypass such a ban.
As long as the G20 countries adhere to the previous decision that cryptocurrencies do not pose a threat to global financial stability, there is no need to fear serious bans on cryptocurrencies.

Russia as a state and Russians as a nation are now rapidly sliding into an abyss with a long period of economic decline, isolation from the outside world, a drop in living standards, which before that was at a minimum level compared to European countries, and most importantly, the degradation of the psyche and morality.

A recently captured Wagnerian told how, on the orders of his command, he, along with others, cleared the territory in Bakhmut, killing all the local residents, including the elderly, women and children. How the five-year-old girl squealed, whom he finished off with a shot in the head. How he destroyed the captured Ukrainians along with the Russian mobilized, who refused to storm the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, throwing grenades into the room where they were, and then poured petrol over the still alive and set them on fire. The world was already horrified by the atrocities that the Russians are perpetrating in the occupied territories of Ukraine. Moreover, these are territories with a Russian-speaking population, which they allegedly came to liberate from the mythical Nazis, whom no one had even seen in their eyes.
Recently, the network was agitated by a video of a Ukrainian prisoner of war being cut off the head with an ordinary knife, which was deliberately distributed on social networks. The intent is twofold: partly to intimidate the Ukrainians, and partly to provoke a response of anger in them so that the Russians avoid captivity.

Both Russians and Ukrainians will have to live with this, and therefore the gap between these peoples is growing and expanding.

If Russia has received any material benefit from the war it has unleashed with Ukraine, then it is temporary. Recently, I saw a figure in the news that only 9 percent of foreign enterprises withdrew their assets from Russia. Russia blackmails and threatens them in every possible way, threatening to nationalize their property if they try to leave the country. Many of the foreign enterprises are ready to take certain losses in order to leave Russia, but it is difficult to sell their property there. As a result, Russia will be recognized as an unreliable partner for doing business, and foreign business will gradually leave Russia.

Earlier, Russia refused to return several hundred civilian aircraft that were leased from other states. But they can only be operated in Russia, and their maintenance is impossible due to the lack of imported components. Therefore, there are more and more accidents and plane crashes, and Russian planes are being arrested in order to compensate for losses. After a short period of time, the Russian air fleet will be practically destroyed.

The transition to a monetary system with a more limited supply for states is absolutely unacceptable. It is impossible to try to transfer the principles of operation of the cryptocurrency to the fiat system of states. The amount of fiat in the state should be generally equal to the amount of material assets that can be in circulation on the territory of the state. Any deviation causes negative consequences for the economy of states.
The transition to the fiat of another state or to cryptocurrency also negatively affects the economy of the state.