by Belle Carter, Natural News:

In a year-end interview with local media outlets, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that people have become weary of the United States dollar (USD) as it has turned out to become an instrument for regime change and interference in other nation’s internal affairs.

“Everyone is already tired of the dollar, which is becoming a tool of influence, a tool for undermining the legitimate competitive rights of countries in different regions, and a tool for interference in internal affairs and regime change,” Lavrov told Rossiya24 and RIA Novosti. He earlier accused the U.S. and its European Union allies of using a wide range of “geopolitical” tools, which include, among other things, “unleashing trade and economic wars.” After they placed sanctions to cut off Russia from the Western financial system and froze its foreign reserves, Moscow and other countries slowly reduced their dependence on Western currencies by switching to alternatives for foreign trade settlements. (Related: END of an ERA: Russian foreign minister declares Western economic dominance is over.)