Good news
Russia open to the use of bitcoin and crypto for international payments - Senior Central Bank official
It will certainly benefit Russian economy if they accept Bitcoin because they are feeling the impact of hard sanctions but their main partner is China and crypto currencies are banned there so how will it work out. The 2nd issue is volatility of Bitcoin price which is a main hurdle in my opinion to use Bitcoin as method of payment and won't be easy to manage.
It was the the high fees and the slow moving transaction is the main reason why some doubts to use or accept btc as a payment method though volatility could come next to it. So, russian country change their minds again and accepts btc and crypto this time? That's noise. This was already on their plan before but they didn't continued it and demand Russian ruble instead for other countries if they want to purchase oils and gas.
China have banned and unabanned cryptos but we are not sure maybe they now unabanned it again? But, if not then they can still use other forms of payment methods. Russia is their ally so they can accept almost anything.
