Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with ethereum inventor Vitalik Buterin during a meeting occurred at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. According to the statement by Kremlin -
"Mr. Buterin described the opportunities for using the technologies he developed in Russia. The President supported the idea of establishing ties with possible Russian partners."
During the meeting Putin discussed with Buterin about the incentives of using blockchain technology and also the innovation ideas & features of Ethereum. And aslo during this meeting a CEO of a famous Russian Bank announced that they are going to develop its first centralized freely tradeable crypto currency "Russian Bitcoin".