so if Russia manages to make mining legal now, miners can now freely mine crypto without hiding, while the government benefits in return through taxes and every other kind of fees miners would be expected to pay, this could at least help their economy, even if personally i think the effect would be minimal.
I also heard, after a lot of sanctions received, they started to retaliate in a way "they will only accept GAS payments using crypto(bitcoin)" I don't know if this is just a plan, but one thing I do know is that as long as the sanctions last, I think Russia is going to be very crypto friendly. they will solve the country's economic problems by using crypto.