So really Russia is really anti-bitcoin after all. No surprise here. Russia's declaration about bitcoin is really inconsistent. One day you will see that they are enthusiastic about bitcoin/blockchain technology. The next day you will hear negative news about bitcoin. So if the President says and he is mad about bitcoin, then don't expect Russia to join the bitcoin bandwagon, that is least Putin is the President there.
Everything that comes from Russia should be taken with a truckload of salt. Another factor that plays an important role to the inconsistencies in the news articles (e.g. one day being Bitcoin friendly, and the other day not), comes from the fact that quite some articles get poorly translated. Plus, "writers" add an extra layer of nonsense to maintain a certain form of uniqueness, in order to avoid plagiarism.