Hah, I doubt that they will, but who knows what will happen. The world is going crazy and I think that everything is possible.
This is what the article says: If crisis-hit Venezuela was hoping to pay off its US$3.15-billion debt to Russia with its new cryptocurrency, those hopes have been shattered as the Russian Finance Ministry announces that it won’t be accepting digital coin. But things can still change. Putin is a master in manipulating social media, so if he can manipulate crypto's he might still be interested.