He stated this at a meeting with participants in the annual scientific and educational program of the Foundation for Public Diplomacy.

A. M. Gorchakova "Dialogue for the future" via videoconference.

“Already in Europe, they are beginning to think about how, especially given the sufficiently solid positions of the euro, to move away from any dependence on the dollar in general,” TASS quotes him.

According to Lavrov, more and more countries in the near future will try to switch to mechanisms that will rely on national currencies in the implementation of financial calculations. 

In January 2020, Yuri Nogin, director of the ratings of financial institutions of the National Rating Agency, in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper, assessed the impact of de-dollarization on the Russian economy.