The recently-held St. Petersburg International Economic Forum concluded on June 8. Among other topics, cryptocurrencies were hot on the agenda — with multiple state representatives weighing in. One proposal put forward came from the head of the Agency of the Far East for Investments and Exports (IPA), Leonid Petukhov, who said that the government body was mulling over creating a ‘financial center’ on the Chinese-Russian border. The story was first reported by TASS, Russia’s largest news agency. The Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, located on the Amur River, is the prime location for such an undertaking, Petukhov ... (full story)