Yep, all true.
Exept for the fact, this was Bank of Russia recommendation statements, not the government laws. There is still no any law considering bitcoins, or any other crypto in Russian Federation.
There are also some comments considering to this news by russian lawyers - even if bitcoin would be stationed in laws somehow, in case of posecutions mentioned, it would require a great work for the police to find additional crime patterns and to prove them, otherwise any punishment would be illegal.
Hope my english is well enough to say exactly what i was going to