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According to a resent research, the population of the Eastern European state Ukraine is the most interested in digital assets. Russia and the USA ranked respectively second and third.

The cryptocurrency brokerage firm BrokerChooser took into account several factors such as the total number of digital asset owners and the global adoption index to determine which is the most crypto-aware country across the globe.

Google searches with the phrases cryptocurrency, compare cryptocurrency, what cryptocurrency to invest in, cryptocurrency to buy, cryptocurrency trading, cryptocurrency trends, and cryptocurrency brokers also played a significant role in the survey.

Despite its financial problems, war issues, and a high percentage of poverty, Ukrainians have reportedly shown major interest in digital assets recently and topped the chart with a 7.97 score (out of 10). The largest nation by landmass Russia ranked second, while the biggest economy the USA landed in the third position.

It is worth noting that the fourth place belongs to another country that experiences economic difficulties Kenya. This should not come as a surprise since, as the research outlined, people from emerging markets often turn their sight towards the digital asset industry to protect their savings in the face of currency devaluation.

On the other hand, adoption in well-developed areas like North America, Western Europe, and Eastern Asia is powered mainly by institutional investors, BrokerChooser noted.

The cryptocurrency environment in the ex-Soviet state is somewhat confusing, as of the moment, since digital tokens are neither legal nor prohibited. While Ukrainians cannot use bitcoin or the altcoins as payment options for goods or services, traders and investors can buy and sell them on exchanges within the country.

Last month, though, the local parliament passed a bill that could legitimize and regulate digital assets within Ukraines borders. Once approved by President Volodymyr Zelensky, the new legislation will offer protection to investors and trading venues from fraud.

Mykhailo Fedorov Minister of Digital Transformation highlighted the popularity of the asset class among the Ukrainian population. He raised hopes that the Eastern European nation could become one of those where it has legal status.

In his turn, Oleg Kurchenko CEO of the platform Binaryx opined that if successful, the bill will reduce stereotypical attitudes towards cryptocurrencies and will help them become normal financial instruments. There was a concern that mistrust of the state could drive some investors away, Kurchenko added.

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Published Oct. 19. Updated Oct. 19 at 9:24 am

This screenshot from the TV Ukraina film, shows Mykhailo Chebotar, arrested in August 2016 over the murder of a 8-year-old girl in Loshchynivka (Odesa oblast).

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The European Court of Human Rights is to examine several alleged violations, including torture and discrimination, in the case of a young man arrested in August 2016 over the murder of a 8-year-old girl in Loshchynivka (Odesa oblast). Mykhailo Chebotar was 21 and lived locally yet his Roma ethnicity was used as a pretext for shocking anti-Roma disturbances, abetted by the local authorities. The defence has also succeeded in adding documents to the case regarding the alleged torture, with the State Bureau of Investigations having initiated an investigation.

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Vladimir Putin's government has described the entry of Ukraine into NATO as the worst-case scenario as a fierce row breaks out over Kyiv's bid to join the powerful western military bloc. Russia has been engaged in a low-running conflict in the Donbas, eastern Ukraine which has claimed more than 14,000 lives. The Kremlin has said that Ukraine joining the NATO pact would be a "red line" for Russias national interests.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Parisian TV channel France 5: "Ukraines accession to NATO would be the worst-case scenario.

"This is a scenario that goes beyond the red lines of Russias national interests.

"This is a scenario that could force Russia to take active measures to ensure its own security.

"Of course, we can understand your feelings.

"But we prefer that you Europeans become better informed.

"Because, before the Russian troops were moved to that region, there were large NATO exercises held near the Russian border.

"Everyone talks about the concentration of Russian troops all the time, but nobody talks about the concentration of NATO troops."

He added: It is not clear whether Americans will stay in Europe and continue to defend Europeans against those terrible Russians."

"Because they, they don't they cannot veto, what neighbors can do.

"We will not return to an age where we had spheres of influence where big powers decided what small neighbours could do."

It comes as Russia took the dramatic move of booting out NATO's mission to Moscow amid escalating tensions.

The Kremlin's Foreign MinisterSergei Lavrov announced:"In response to NATO's actions, we are suspending the work of our permanent mission to NATO."

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Russia is attempting to avoid fulfilling the Minsk Protocol and the Memorandum on its provisions, insisting on the implementation of the Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements exclusively.

Thats according to Ukraines Permanent Representative to international organizations in Vienna, Yevhen Tsymbaliuk, who spoke at a meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council on Monday, October 11, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

Russia is trying to convince the Permanent Council of a special legal nature of the package of measures and give it some advantage over the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum, the diplomat said, at the same time noting that the political approval of the measures by the UN Security Council does not release Russia from its obligations under the other two agreements," said Tsymbaliuk.

The diplomat explained why the Russian delegation was so tense when other countries delegates demanded that the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum be implemented

For example, Paragraph 4 of the Minsk Memorandum provides for the withdrawal of multiple rocket launcher systems such as the Tornado. In fact, the Tornado is a new system used exclusively by the Russian armed forces, which is a vivid example proving Russias participation in the conflict, certified by a Russian signatory, Tsymbaliuk said.

He also recalled that Paragraph 10 of the Minsk Protocol provides for the withdrawal of illegal armed groups and military hardware from the territory of Ukraine, which he emphasized means this is about those whose presence has not been allowed by the Ukrainian parliament. Therefore it is only about Russian armed groups operating in the occupied territories, despite Russia's attempts to manipulate Paragraph 10 of the Package of Measures, said the Ukrainian diplomat.

In addition, he pointed out that Paragraph 4 of the Minsk Protocol provides for constant monitoring and verification of the Ukrainian-Russian state border, along with maintaining a security zone in the Ukrainian-Russian border areas.

As Ukrinform reported, the U.S. and EU missions to the OSCE reminded Russia that the Minsk Agreements, signed by the Russian Federation, consist of three documents - a protocol, a memorandum, and a package of measures.

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Ukrainian law enforcement authorities on Monday disclosed the arrest of a hacker responsible for the creation and management of a "powerful botnet" consisting of over 100,000 enslaved devices that was used to carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and spam attacks on behalf of paid customers.

The unnamed individual, from the Ivano-Frankivsk region of the country, is also said to have leveraged the automated network to detect vulnerabilities in websites and break into them as well as stage brute-force attacks in order to guess email passwords. The Ukrainian police agency said it conducted a raid of the suspect's residence and seized their computer equipment as evidence of illegal activity.

"He looked for customers on the closed forums and Telegram chats and payments were made via blocked electronic payment systems," the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) said in a press statement. The payments were facilitated via WebMoney, a Russian money transfer platform banned in Ukraine.

But in what appears to be a trivial opsec error, the actor registered the WebMoney account with his legitimate address, thus allowing the officials to zero in on his whereabouts.

The development comes weeks after Russian cybersecurity firm Rostelecom-Solar, a subsidiary of the telecom operator Rostelecom, disclosed late last month that it had sinkholed a portion of the Mris DDoS botnet that's known to have co-opted an estimated 250,000 hosts into its mesh.

By intercepting and analyzing the commands used to control infected devices, the company said it was able to "detect 45,000 network devices, identify their geographic location and isolate them from the botnet." Over 20% of the devices attacked are located in Brazil, followed by Ukraine, Indonesia, Poland, and India.

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