I am sorry to hear about your financial loss.
I am curious about your government's view on bitcoins. Are they planning to block bitcoins or crypto currency (eth, LTC) in general?
Nah, our government wants to block any cryptocurrency circulation in the Russian Federation. Most likely the first will be a ban on bitcoin exchange in rubles (but it's easy to get around, exchanging bitcoins for US dollars, then US dollars to exchange for rubles). Then - perhaps the adoption of a law that prohibited any operations with cryptocurrencies on the territory of the Russian Federation, for the violation of criminal responsibility (like 5-7 years of jail).
All this is due to the fact that the majority of all the operations with cryptocurrency are impersonal and not controlled by anyone, and this is according to our state a good place for such bad things as drug trafficking, terrorism, arms sales and so on. All this applies to any cryptocurrency, not just bitcoin. And that's the only reason our government wants to create an own cryptocurrency which it can control.
By the way, only because of the threat of the imminent adoption of such laws and blocking any operations with cryptocurrencies, I was forced to invest such a big amount HO, hoping to earn some amount before it will be banned
