. . . I do believe that fcsm.ru is actually the official government regulator for Russia.
They also have a list of self-regulated organizations here:
Саморегулируемые организации
I don't see raufr or crofr on the list.
Pharaoh, I again quote Dudley Moore playing "Arthur": "It's a goner."
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To the best of my knowledge, there is no governmental regulatory authority whatsoever empowered within Russia with oversight powers in Forex.
If I am wrong, I will gladly stand corrected; but none that I am aware of.
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This is why these pseudo-regulatory SRO's have popped up, to seemingly lend some credence upon a lawless region.
These voluntary SRO's are trying to "Lift themselves and their industry up by their own bootstraps" within a vacuum of legitamate governmental regulation. BTW, this is the derivation of the term "Boot" and "Bootstrap Loader"; wherein a dead slab of silicon-laced motherboard attempts to become a computing machine with nothing more than some energy, and a small, stored, infantile program, from nothing to something useful.
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Just as one match can light some kindling that ignites a forest fire, in the same way these SRO's seek growth to lend more credebility to themselves; but, are right now not much more than Hunting Clubs voting medals to each other for "Trophy Kills". The more the member firms grow (read that: "steal"), the more power they can wield against outside opposition.
Meanwhile, they try to play nice with each other, spanking only the most aggregious offenses.
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Any alien entity doing business with a Russian firm is subject to one primary rule:
"The money goes in, but it never comes out." This has been true for the past 150 yrs.
Governments, banks, greedy businesses large and small, have all either completely written-off investments in bonds, private ownership interests, real estate, mining rights, and equity; or taken major haircuts on any and all Russian projects. Forex is just the latest frontier.
