During the “direct line with the president” Vladimir Putin, a number of questions were asked about the Internet, most of which he gave habitually evasive answers. On June 7, Vladimir Putin, by tradition, draws a “straight line” from the studio in the Gostiny Dvor in Moscow, but this time there were no living guests that are already familiar to this format in the hall. They were replaced by interactive screens, to which questions and video messages are displayed.

The Federal Tax Service of Russia sent a document of the Ministry of Finance to tax authorities, which reports that, despite the lack of legal regulation of digital money in the country, users must pay taxes on profit from transactions with cryptocurrencies.