Russia changes her mind time to time and do it oppositely 
That's because they don't really know what they want to do with cryptocurrencies. First we had news about Putin being interested in ETH, then we had news about their government controlled cryptocurrency and now there are voices saying they should ban it all. People have frequently quoted this well known phrase ending with "and then you win". It seems we're still in the "they fight you" phase.
a government panel is said to have advised closing cryptocurrency dealers in India
This doesn't mean anything. They can keep advising it as long as they please. You need legislation for it to be legit.
Yes, but be sure, that Putin and main core of russian oligarchs know about bitcoin and other crypto, and they a buying cryptos in terribly huge volumes. That's for usual people they are not confident how to do with BTC.