Russia has sanctioned a British teenager for his role in revealing the alleged use of ruble-pegged stablecoin A7A5 to fund the war effort against Ukraine.
Alexander Browder, 17, wrote a report for the foreign policy and national security think tank The Henry Jackson Society, which the Russian Foreign Ministry described as spreading “defamatory speculation and false information.”
Browder, who is the son of Vladimir Putin critic Bill Browder, was sanctioned along with three other British nationals and Washington Post journalist Catherine Belton.
He described it as “a badge of honor” in an article on X Wednesday.
The A7A5 stablecoin was designed to circumvent sanctions imposed on Russia following its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
