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Implementation hinges on foreign partners willing to issue tokenized versions of shares of Russian firms, despite sanctions from the EU and U.S. The central bank of Russia said in a recent statement that it would consider allowing the tokenization of domestic company shares to make them available to foreign investors, in a move that could open a new channel for capital inflows, without relying on sanctioned infrastructure. As local news media outlet TASS reported on Thursday, Oct. 9, Bank of Russia first deputy governor Vladimir Chistyukhin told reporters at the Finopolis 2025 forum that tokenizing Russian equities for overseas trading is “a possible option.” He added, however, that the initiative would largely depend on foreign partners willing to create and operate tokenized versions of Russian assets abroad. “Yes, this is a possible option. But in this matter, a significant role is assigned precisely to foreign partners, that is, to those foreign persons who are willing to tokenize Russian assets in order to carry out their purchase and sale abroad,” Chistyukhin said, per the English translation of the original quote from TASS. Chistyukhin’s comment on foreign partners “who are willing to tokenize Russian assets” reflects the reality that U.S. and European regulations, which currently impose sanctions against the Russian Federation, largely bar people from those regions from buying Russian stocks or bonds. For instance, the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), has prohibited U.S. persons from purchasing both new and existing debt and equity securities issued by entities in the Russian Federation under multiple executive orders. Similarly, the European Union’s Council prohibits dealings in transferable securities issued after April 12, 2022, by publicly controlled Russian entities. Moscow Exchange to Add Crypto Indices The tokenization plan builds on an earlier proposal by the chairman of the Moscow Exchange — Russia’s…

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