To me it looks like it was a big bit of noise because of some whale buying. Price will probably decay back toward the NAV until something new and unexpected happens.
The perceived threat is that the fund would cease if it doesn't change objective. But I don't think it could do that even if it wanted to, for years, because their positions are frozen. Given that my average buy is 94p, and given that I have zero faith in the UK economy and the pound (I am in the UK), I think I would vote no to the changes. BTW there is another JRS forum here, in case you don't know about it: https://uk.advfn.com/cmn/fbb/thread.php3?id=25689500
I think I was wrong; the change of investment objective will take longer than a month. I've just read that there will be a shareholders' vote in the Autumn. I'm not sure which way I would vote.
I think that the change in investment objective should take about 1 month. There will presumably be a change in name to go with it. Perhaps the DR conversions will have happened after around that time. I think the price will take off after that. I have been placing buy orders quite close the market price to buy dips.
I have set some buy orders for buying dips to add to my position. I am glad that they are having so much trouble cancelling depositary receipts, because I don't want them selling out of Russia anytime soon.
BTW I looked-up City of London Investment's CIO on Linkedin. There were signs of wokery (e.g. Bill Gates as an inflence, pfff). I think that they will continue to sell.
Gazprom DRs are the easiest to convert for most people, because they can use a Gazprombank account without full identity verification. Even just taking the Gazprom parts of the JRS portfolio and the cash, "converting" the DRs without any discount, I calculate well over £2 per share.
I googled a few by "security no." They all seem to be depositary receipts. Is there an example of a real-shares position in there that you can see? This fund should be more able to do the cancellations (conversions) than almost anyone. There must be legal problems; perhaps UK-specific. I haven't seen even one UK person do a conversion.