Russia’s Supreme Court has directed the St. Petersburg City Court to reconsider an appeal against cryptocurrency information website Bitcoininfo.ru.

According to a report by Russian legal information site RAPSI, the Vyborg District Court in St. Petersburg blocked the Bitcoininfo.ru website two years ago when they considered cryptocurrencies as a “virtual means of payment and accumulation of value” and therefore it was illegal to provide relevant information. , citing that cryptocurrencies have undermined Russia's only legal currency, the ruble.

Afterwards, the St. Petersburg Vyborg District Court did not re-examine the defendant’s Bitcoininfo.ru website, and the Bitcoininfo.ru website did not know at the beginning that the court would block their website until the access was cut off. According to Grass cryptocurrency news site Anycoin, when the Bitcoininfo.ru website was suddenly blocked, the original appeal deadline was running out.

However, despite the looming appeal window, Bitcoininfo.ru has decided to appeal the previous ruling, but the Vyborg District Court of St. Petersburg has refused to re-examine the case, according to reports. However, the "plot" was reversed last month. According to Anycoin reports, the Russian Supreme Court reconsidered the case in the next review and resent the case on Friday (April 20). Vyborg District Court of St. Petersburg.

In February of this year, the Vyborg District Court in St. Petersburg accepted another similar case and overturned a decision to block 40 bitcoin-related websites, according to RIA Novosti.

For the most part, the Russian government does not support informational sites about cryptocurrencies. Last year, Russia's central bank said it supported blocking access to external websites that sell cryptocurrencies in the country, saying they put investors at risk.