no, its the same rules for nearly every country in the world..
.. BANKS cannot use bitcoin as a financial product for customers.

it doesnt stop people doing what the hell they like personally and privately

Services like this are a  great way to get people to start using bitcoin.

If they didn't feel like there were any good use cases for bitcoin before, this might sway them in the direction of bitcoin.

A few more in all of the bitcoin using countries of the world and we may really be on the launch phase of acceptance.

This is very good news, with services such as these will become increasingly known bitcoin

I always thought that Russia was never a big supporter of bitcoin. When I saw this, I was shocked. I wish Australia has these offers.

I remember that news as well bitcoin being banned on Russia yet now they can their bills with bitcoins?
Maybe one day we can also see a thread about why Bitcoin is so successful in Russia and that they do have experience with digital money like what China had before bitcoin.  

So the news about bitcoin being banned isn't true then.

It was never banned.

Some politician on central banker gets a question about Bitcoin, stunned he answers it, then goes back to real work and never thinks about it again.

Then all the Bitcoin news sites play it up and everybody gets into a frenzy, rinse and repeat (in other countries too)...

I believe some politician was gonna propose it to the Russian duma/senate or something, and most likely it will not get anywhere.

Well i remember someone said Russia has banned bitcoin,and well slowly companies are making the service between bitcoin and fiat bills,we will see this kind of service growing on the next years.

How I wish my ISP will accept Bitcoin as payment method in the future or as soon as possible. Well, it might take some time for my ISP to even notice the existence of Bitcoin.

Didn't Russia just create a bill that made it to the Russian legislature? I really hope it doesn't get passed. Anyways, this is really great news.

Nice to see that Russia govern isn't fighting against bitcoin, before reading this article i thought that using bitcoins in Russia was very difficult.