Business programme
20.05.2025
11:30–13:00

Mining through the Lens of Current Legal Regulation

Congress Centre, conference hall B3 (2nd floor)
The Ecosystem: Environment and Law
Broadcast
The search for the optimal regulation of cryptocurrencies has become a universal trend in the development of legal systems. Russia has long had a system in place to regulate the issuance and circulation of certain types of crypto assets. Provisions defining the rules for the mining and circulation of digital currencies took effect in Russia in early 2025. However, it is still premature to talk about a definitive design of the regulatory environment for the wide range of crypto assets and new models of organizing finance, including decentralized finance. What initial results have been achieved in the regulation of mining? Could the circulation of digital currencies and assets be further expanded? What kind of prospects are there for transnational payments in cryptocurrency? Has an inter-industry consensus been reached in terms of taxing cryptocurrency? Does legislation in the electric power industry and other legislative branches need to be further adapted? How can we ‘sanitize’ the market? What elements of the crypto-sphere still need regulation?

Moderator

Ilya Kucherov
Deputy Director, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

Panellists

Sergey Bezdelov
Director, Industrial Mining Association
Evgeny Grabchak
Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation
Aleksey Katyaev
Head, Interregional Inspectorate of the Federal Tax Service for Largest Taxpayers No. 7
Evgeny Masharov
Member, The Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation
Andrey Medvedev
Legal Department Director, The Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia)
Vladimir Senin
Member of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on the Financial Market
Alexey Yakovlev
Director of the Financial Policy Department, Ministry of Finance ofthe Russian Federation

Front row participants

Valery Seleznev
First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Energy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Elina Sidorenko
Professor, MGIMO University; Member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights

Broadcast

Ilya Kucherov
Deputy Director, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation
Sergey Bezdelov
Director, Industrial Mining Association
- Director, Competence Centre for the Digital Economy, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
- CEO, INTER RAO SERVICE, Moscow, subsidiary of Inter RAO. Activity type – provision of customs clearance services of goods (electricity, power equipment, etc.) transported across the border of the Russian Federation as a customs representative and implementation of logistics and freight forwarding services.
- Chairman of the Board, Rating Agency for the Evaluation of Digital Economy Projects (Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization).
- President, The Best Blockchain Technology (ICO) Project Award 2017
- Head of Working Group on the Implementation of the Digital Economy, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
- Executive Director of the Board of Trustees, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
- Member of Rostec’s Working Group on the Implementation of the RF Government Programme Digital Economy of the Russian Federation
- Deputy Chairman of the Board on the Financial, Industrial and Investment Policy of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation
- Founder, Investment platform National Investment Platform
Evgeny Grabchak
Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation
Aleksey Katyaev
Head, Interregional Inspectorate of the Federal Tax Service for Largest Taxpayers No. 7
Evgeny Masharov
Member, The Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation
Andrey Medvedev
Legal Department Director, The Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia)
Vladimir Senin
Member of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on the Financial Market
Alexey Yakovlev
Director of the Financial Policy Department, Ministry of Finance ofthe Russian Federation
Valery Seleznev
First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Energy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Elina Sidorenko
Professor, MGIMO University; Member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights
Sidorenko Elina - Doctor of Law, Professor of MGIMO University (Moscow State Institute of International Relations under Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia), Head of MGIMO Digital economy centre.
A graduate of the Stavropol State University (now — The North-Caucasus Federal University) in 2001. In 2002 she successfully defended her thesis and in 2013 she successfully defended her thesis for the degree of Doctor of Law. Since 2013 she is Professor of MGIMO University, since 2017 she is the Head of MGIMO Digital economy centre.
Research interests: financial security, digital economy, anti-corruption policy, laundering of the proceeds from crime and financing of terrorism.
She is the author of 150 scientific works.
Sidorenko Elina is actively working as an expert. She is a member of the Expert Council of the RF President's Administration on anti-corruption, the Head of the Working Group of the State Duma of RF Federal Gathering on cryptocurrency circulation risk assessment, the Head of the new digital technologies Expert Council of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. Participates in the development of legislation on cryptocurrency circulation regulation in Russia.
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