Well, only the people who know nothing about Bitcoin were calling it anonimous. And you know, nothing will change . Everybody knew NAS is spying on any person on the internet. I think the only interesting question if NAS learnt to hack currencies like Monero or not yet.

As for Russia, news are mostly negative here. Ministry of finance was a 'bull" pushing to legalise and central bank a "bear" pushing to prohibit everything. Central bank wins the day. Now they want to prohibit exchanging anything but ICO tokens to fiat i.e. prohibiting crypto exchanges. And they want to make it illegal to exchange bitcoin for fiat and put groups of people to prison for 4 years for organising such exchange.