Will Russia Ever Embrace the Crypto-Ruble?

While, officially, Bitcoin continues to be illegal in Russia, President Vladimir Putin embraced blockchain technology in 2017 after a famous meeting with Ethereum designer Vitalik Buterin. Last summer we heard rumors of a Crypto-Ruble but no details. Today we have some more details but there are still a ton of questions to be answered.
According to this post at Coin Telegraph, the Russian Association of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain (RACIB) announced that the crypto-ruble will be introduced by t