“I would say that the dollar is not a weapon.

This is a drug that the whole world has been addicted to in terms of settlements, servicing the banking system, and so on, ”he said.

At the same time, Oreshkin added that “giving up the drug is not an easy story.”

“But the realization that this is a drug, and not a boon, is now growing in the world, in most of this world,” the presidential aide said.

Earlier, the head of the Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina, said that there would be no ban on the circulation of the dollar, euro or other currencies in Russia.