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Why did Russia slap this 17-year-old with a travel ban?
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June 15, 2026
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2:51Now PlayingMost teens might be preoccupied with school, sports or a part-team job but Alexander Browder has another thing on his mind: a travel ban forbidding him from entering Russia.
It’s part of a sanction the U.K.-born teen is facing from the Kremlin over a passion project he’s launched: an open source database of global cryptocurrency laundering.
Through his database, Browder says he unearthed Russia’s alleged use of a 2025 stablecoin to circumvent sanctions by Western nations for its 2022 invasion of Ukraine and alternatively fund the country’s continuing war efforts.
#russia #crypto #ukraine #stablecoin
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