Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, center at table, attends an event following the launch of the ‘petro’ cryptocurrency in Caracas on Feb. 20. In the front row were two of Maduro’s Russian advisers, Denis Druzhkov and Fyodor Bogorodsky, whom he thanked for aiding his fight against American …

Source: Exclusive: Russia Secretly Helped Venezuela Launch a Cryptocurrency to Evade US Sanctions