Russia issues the "CriptoRublo" Russian President Vladimir Putin has officially declared that Russia will issue its own 'CriptoRublo' at a closed-door meeting in Moscow, according to local news sources. The news broke through the Minister of Communications Nikolay Nikiforov. According to the official, the cryptocurrency issued by the state can not be mined and will be issued, controlled and maintained only by the authorities. The CriptoRublos can be exchanged for regular rubles at any time, although if the owner can not explain where the CriptoRublos come from, a tax of 13 percent will be imposed. The same tax will be applied to any difference between the price of the purchase of the token and the price of the sale. Nikiforov said: Although the announcement means that Russia will enter the world of cryptocurrency, it is not in any way an affirmation or legalization of Bitcoin or any other decentralized cryptocurrency. On the contrary, Putin recently called for a complete ban on cryptocurrencies within Russia. Putin's statement apparently seemed to contradict earlier comments by other ministers who seemed pro-crypto, but only with regulations, as well as Putin's recent meetings with Buterin and others. Now, with the emission of CriptoRublo, the apparent contradiction has been made clear.