“Considerable attention is paid to the issues of the wider use of national currencies in mutual settlements and the move away from the use of the dollar,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.

Evdokimov added that even before the introduction of anti-Russian sanctions, the share of national currencies in trade between the EAEU countries exceeded 70%.

Earlier, Sergey Glazyev, Minister for Integration and Macroeconomics of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), said that the share of the ruble in the trade of the EAEU countries already exceeds two-thirds, in addition, there is an opportunity to increase it.