It has nothing to do with kidnappers and criminals .... They are trying to protect their own currency {Ruble} and everyone knows that. Many other corrupt nations are doing the very same thing, because they

know people can flee the country with their capital and their wealth, if it comes down to that. Russia has been jumping from the one extreme to the other and nobody really knows what the official status of

Bitcoin is in that country. If they do ban Bitcoin, it will merely go underground and nobody will have control over that. If the goal was to stop criminal activities, they would have regulated the exchanges more,

but they not doing that, and that raise the red flag for their hidden agenda.