I do not agree that Russia is on the list.
So far, the situation is not very unique, and 2016 will be a decisive year for the Bitcoins in Russia.

"According to article 27 of the Federal Law" On the Central Bank of Russian Federation (Bank of Russia) "placing on the territory of the Russian Federation of money substitutes is forbidden." (C) The Bank of Russia

"Cryptocurrency - illegal means of payment, sorry, at the current time all legends around the world that they are allowed -. Fiction must pay tribute to those who came up with" Bitcoin ", and who coined the term cryptocurrency, meme, head virus hit. "(c)
Advisor to the President of Russia on the Internet German Klimenko

The Russian government is constantly slanders, insults cryptocurrency. They still do not understand these issues. Someone calls to ban the planting and in prison, someone says that will create a fork and use blokchain technology.
I think all the problems in the totality of Russia. They constantly want to control everything!

With regards to the poorest African countries, it is a good idea, but in these countries to begin to create conditions for dissemination cryptocurrency.

I find this choice of top 10 countries very strange. Where are Japan and Switzerland? Japan has recently announced they are going to acknowledge Bitcoin as a legitimate digital currency and it should be on the top of that list in my opinion. Also Switzerland is very open to fin-tech advancements in general so it wouldn't be a surprise if they legalize Bitcoin plus many of the Bitcoin companies have their headquarters in Switzerland. And I would include the Philippines in the top 10 as well.

My list would look like this:

1. Japan
2. Switzerland
3. Some Nordic country- Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Finland
4. Some emerging Asian country - the Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia maybe
5. Some emerging African country - South Africa
6........  everyone else

Wow that is a very different list to what i had expected

Bitcoin would grind to a halt if Niue decided to adopt it enthusiastically. Let's get some scaling up in the bag before even dreaming about this type of thing.

Rube Goldbergian Vapourware and ~1700 LOC op code hacks are not, as yet, in the bag.

Your astonishingly consistent condescension is admirable. Increased scaling is not here and nothing is proven yet.

Since the original article is over two years old, I am surprised Greece hasn't fully adopted bitcoin as their national currency yet 
Since that's when their woes started but then they kept getting bailed out by other countries so they said forget about it, we got enough money now 

I really doubt that some of those countries will ever adopt Bitcoin. I think that the first 3 countries won't adopt Bitcoin, but from number 4 down, they will adopt it.

Slowly every country will adopt it.

Its very rare to find place who accept bitcoins in Finland.