Qiwi and Skrill are banned in Russian Federation

[Vika NSFW]

Russian providers are blocking access to this services in Russian Federation.
https://life.ru/t/%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8/877604/smi_platiezhnyie_siervisy_qiwi_i_skrill_vniesieny_v_rieiestr_zaprieshchionnykh_saitov

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Service_for_Supervision_in_the_Sphere_of_Telecom,_Information_Technologies_and_Mass_Communications

[Vika NSFW]

Here is the notice, that at Monday the Internet Provider blocking of two sites will be removed, due to disappear of illegal in Russian Federation gambling Sites Links from there.

https://life.ru/t/%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%85%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B8/878142/qiwi_i_skrill_ustranili_vsie_narushieniia (in Russian)

[amacar2]

So only option remain for gambling sites of russia and russian gamblers is bitcoin? Good for growth.. what about neteller in russia?

[Vika NSFW]

what about neteller in russia?

No idea.
https://www.neteller.com/ru

There is a Russian Interface.

[Vika NSFW]

Qiwi and Skrill web sites are removed from the Russian Provider Ban list.

[amacar2]

Qiwi and Skrill web sites are removed from the Russian Provider Ban list.

So now both are available and legal to use again, why it was banned before?

[Vika NSFW]

why it was banned before?

Illegal gambling sites URL's inside the Main Url.

[Dudeperfect]

Not a big deal, I can understand how it feels. I am from India and we have serious restrictions on using PayPal. Any funds we receive (even if $0.001) are directly auto withdrawn in linked bank account due to instructions are given by central bank and that makes us very difficult to send payments from PayPal especially when if we have to send funds without using the credit card.

Bitcoin is really emerging as an aid for this obstacle, let’s hope it will have bright future in the eyes of law.

[Vika NSFW]

I am from India and we have serious restrictions on using PayPal.

Hi, but PayPal is not the "unique" player in this service.
There are some other Payment Systems for Freelancers.

[mindrust]

They do want  to ban Bitcoin too but I am pretty sure they know that it will be a useless act, because they cant actually ban bitcoin without banning the internet, but they can ban exchanges. I think they also won't do it because exchanges make huge money for Russia.