maybe Russia government prohibits bitcoin because they want to monopolize the bitcoin as their own achievement,Russia is a communist country like china, they dont want the other country investment goes in there industry, that why they prohibits the digital currency in there country. but we not finalize our conclusion maybe russia will wake up their mind and fully embrace the bitcoin as there companionship of improvement.
I live in Russia and they decided that the crypto currency is a pyramid, and even though they themselves make a cryptorub -_-