Odaily Planet Daily News: The Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus rejected an appeal by a Belarusian against a lower-level ruling that ordered him to pay 2.7 million Belarusian rubles (about $1 million) to the state for illegal trading of digital assets. The man, whose initials are "A", was accused of setting up an online cryptocurrency exchange using Telegram Messenger in January 2021. He allegedly earned 5,400,000 rubles in revenue from illegal activities. (stl)