Rumors of a Russian national crypto have been circulating for a while.
And while that is not in the news atm, Russia is set to revamp it's ship ports by using blockchains.
Estimated annual savings in logistics costs are huge.
And it now seems that they have at least 2 competitors in the market place which should keep the costs down also.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/russian-ministry-of-transport-to-pilot-ibmmaersk-blockchain-platform