There a few company's in Moscow that are and have been selling mining machines for sometime.  There has been some good progress and I do fell it will be allowed sooner, but it does scare you when 7 years imprisonment for anything to do with bitcoin.  

here some good positive news I seen lately.

http://www.econotimes.com/Moscow-gets-first-physical-bitcoin-exchange-263630

http://forklog.com/v-moskve-otkrylsya-statsionarnyj-bitkoin-obmennik/