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“Neither Sberbank nor Yandex has disclosed whether supercomputer hardware was damaged, leaving the actual hardware impact on Russia's sanction-constrained AI compute capacity unverified.”

“Moscow is finally embracing crypto, but only by handing the keys to its largest state-backed banks while keeping domestic civilian transactions strictly illegal.”

“Moscow is capping retail crypto buys at less than four grand a year while handing Sberbank the keys to the institutional vault.”

“Banning self-custody withdrawals and peer-to-peer ruble swaps turns crypto inside Russia into a walled banking product—legal for state-approved cross-border trade, but locked inside domestic intermediaries like Sberbank for regular citizens.”