Quote from: Palmholder on April 25, 2018, 07:52:27 AM

Head of russian Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina told she plans to create crypto ruble last year, but noone rushes to do it nowadays. Ministry of Finance has different opinion, crypto ruble may threat secret financial flows, they think.
Anyway if Central Bank will ever create nation crypto currency it will has not bitcoin's features, it will not provide anonymity, will not be mineable

Based on the info I encounter the work is actively in progress. Bank of Russia and some major commercial banks are working together on a national ethereum-based blockchain called Masterchain.

According to the BIS classification (https://www.bis.org/cpmi/publ/d174.htm) this concept looks like wholesale CBDC. It will help facilitate payments in financial markets and interbank transactions.
I think that creation of a wholesale CBDC is a question of near future. Unlike a general purpose digital currency which could act as a substitute for cash/commercial bank money and would require much more research and regulatory changes.

Concerning the Finance Ministry, they have introduced a draft of law recently which would effectively enable doing ICOs in Russia. Not sure which secret flows you mean though, but from what I see they look at crypto even more favorably than the central bank.