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Restrictions on BestChange have been lifted following the return of the popular cryptocurrency aggregator to Russia.
Russian authorities are unblocking the BestChange site, a popular provider of cryptocurrency exchange data in the Russian-speaking segment of the market.
The decision of the Bank of Russia was made several months after regulators limited access to the platform and forced BestChange to remove some features for residents of Russia.
The online aggregator of cryptocurrency exchanges BestChange.ru will again be available to Russian users, announced the site's administrators, citing a letter from the Central Bank of Russia (CBR), as reported by the business publication RBC.
This step was recently initiated by the Department of Information Security of Monetary and Credit Regulation, just over three months after Roskomnadzor ordered Russian internet providers to block the site and all its domains.
The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) restricted access to the aggregator's pages in April 2025.
And this was not the first case of the platform's closure. The media censor has already blocked the cryptocurrency service several times - in 2017, 2019, and 2020, respectively. In February of this year, BestChange was briefly blacklisted by Roskomnadzor.
In all these cases, lawyers successfully fought and ultimately achieved the cancellation of the ban. The letter from the CBR lifting the latest ban was received in response to an appeal filed with the regulator after some changes were made to the content displayed in Russia, in response to the bank's concerns.
To ensure the complete unblocking of the online portal, the platform had to restrict access for Russian users to certain records that could be labeled by the Bank of Russia as constituting illegal banking activity, explained BestChange senior analyst Nikita Zuborev.
The Central Bank of the Russian Federation pointed out to the aggregator the need to remove information about the purchase and sale of foreign currency for Russian rubles, as well as pairs with two foreign payment systems and currencies, such as Alipay, and bank accounts in fiat currencies of other countries, for example, in Kazakh tenge.
Zuborev noted that fulfilling this requirement delayed the unblocking of the site. On Wednesday, the Central Bank informed BestChange that it was satisfied with the corrections in its listings and that access to the site would be restored soon.
A representative of the platform told RBC:
"This was related to a certain delay in the unblocking process, as the requirement was initially insufficiently transparent, and the removal of instructions for exchanging rubles on our part was inadequate."
The rest is a formality, as the Bank of Russia has not yet officially notified Roskomnadzor of its decision, which needs to exclude the aggregator from the register of banned sites that internet providers refer to across the country.
Nikita Zuborev also thanked the lawyers of BestChange.ru for their efforts:
"We are grateful to the lawyers who managed to achieve justice and unblock the site, albeit under such compromise conditions."
He expressed confidence that Russian restrictions would not affect information about buying and selling cryptocurrencies for rubles and would not extend to users in other jurisdictions, assuring that the site would continue to provide aggregation services worldwide.
Nevertheless, Russia is now also pursuing crypto traders, having adopted a number of recent legislative amendments that threaten individuals exchanging digital and fiat currencies in P2P mode. Measures include blocking transactions and freezing bank accounts.
In the context of sanctions imposed due to the invasion of Ukraine, Moscow is also trying to limit operations with hard currency and capital outflows. A recent announcement that restrictions on the entry of foreign fiat and cash do not apply to cryptocurrencies was a pleasant surprise for cryptocurrency users.
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