First lets get something clear, the article says "Russian companies have begun using bitcoin" which is not exactly the same as "Russia is using bitcoin for foreign trades". It is not at the government level, it is still at the "people's level" which is what Bitcoin was made to do.
Think of it this way, we are all using bitcoin and we are all from different countries but nobody can say your country or mine are using bitcoin for foreign trade just because we are using bitcoin!

Other than that, I don't see Russian government using bitcoin because they already have an alternative payment system in place to SWIFT which they have been pushing and in their other trades with a country like China or India they are using their own fiat currencies.

I didn't say US is clean, and whataboutism shouldn't be encouraged because it greatly diminishes the gravity of the situation. The narrative that is being parroted would just be that Bitcoin is facilitating transactions that are undesirable. This is probably not what the community needs.

It has always been possible for Bitcoin to facilitate transactions without restrictions. OFAC compliant blocks, which fortunately didn't take off is why countries like Russia are able to circumvent sanctions.

Forum community have experience with a very long lasting campaign from Best Change, and it's a company from Russia. Policy in Russia can be changed very quickly because that nation is centralized in power and adminstration by a single person, Putin, but Best Change in many years shown that in Russia, people can use Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies through their service.

Expect it to be legal tender in Russia is too far.

https://newhedge.io/terminal/bitcoin/legality-map

I didn't  know that Russia ban access to Bitcoin forum. They hate the USA but does it make them banning all websites from the USA?

The forum is USA-based, and it makes me thinking about this policy action from Russia but I think it is really too serious if they do that. The forum does nothing harmful to the Russia, so in my thinking no reasons for Putin to restrict Russian access to Bitcointalk forum.

I can remember vividly during 2019 and 2021, were so many countries is against bitcoin development and technology, some dislike bitcoin due to they feel that the essence of bitcoin introduction is for money laundering, I think that it's same Russian government that ban or restricted bitcoin in her country...but right now they want to trade with bitcoin..I have already predicted that before 2040 if some of us will be alive before them, bitcoin will be accepted as a legal tender

Because if United States of America accepts embrace Bitcoin and Russia also embrace Bitcoin, that will triggers other countries who restricted her citizen's not to trade with bitcoin will definitely allow their citizens to trade with bitcoin,  I will say why Russian agreed to trade with bitcoin is that they have seen the important of Bitcoin and that's why they all agree to trade with bitcoin.

It's obvious that this information will skyrocket the price of bitcoin, because if effect take place by Russians the demands of bitcoin will be triple higher than the supply, so that's what I want us to understand....I know that one day top countries like Russia will embrace cryptocurrency BTC because its a decentralized currency and its not been controlled or influenced by the government.

It says that Russian companies have started accepting it as currency, but if you read a little after that, it is seemingly endorsed by the prime minister of Finance:

That's more "government level" than "people's". Another reason to be bullish on 2025. However, I do acknowledge that it conflicts with their plan on promoting BRICS.

There are ways to remove traces (i.e. paying exorbitant fees to a certain miner), especially if you own big mining facilities.

Spoiler alert:

There was never and there will never be a BRICs basket currency. It's vaporware.

They intended to use BTC from the get-go, they just don't want to announce it formally (yet).

Why? Because the price could easily skyrocket to 7 digit figures in a single day.

Maybe they'll announce it in 2025, but at the latest I expect it to happen by 2030.

It will be really big news when China invades Taiwan in 2027.

It doesn't. That was the plan from the get-go.

That's why they started mining BTC a while back.

WEF wants BTC to help the dedollarization process and Net Zero.

WEF endorses the "multi-polar" BRICs alliance.

There are even projections that China/India will leave US behind by 2030.

They won't abandon BRICs, just USD as a global reserve currency.

Currently, Bitcoin has been a joke alternative to the USD because it can appreciate well in a matter of time. There is no restriction in using Bitcoin, even though the US tries to sanction Russian companies that are using Bitcoin for trades. Bitcoin was created to make transactions much easier for everyone and it's what we are seeing. The could try to sanction companies from trading with others but with Bitcoin, the sanction can be waved. With all the sanctions against Russia, the country has been doing well, which has been a big surprise to others that thought Russia will not be able to meet up with her mere functions.

BRICs and BTC aren't mutually exclusive, I don't know what made you think that:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/10/23/russia-launches-brics-mining-infrastructure-project/