I'm not sure about this article it was not loading the page completely also I cant think why Russia is going to banned the cryptocurrency in their country, maybe because this juts want to regulate the cryptocurrency and strengthen their fiat money in their country.

Still I didn't find in any article that Russia already banned bitcoin, still they will still looking at it but they are already planning to do it. In some article I read that Russia was afraid that banks are not able to regulate the cryptocurrency in their country since I think their are a lot of cryptocurrency investors in Russia.