This specialist said in an interview with Le Monde.

According to him, between 2001 and 2021, the share of the dollar in world foreign exchange reserves "decreased from a little over 70 to 59%."

"The weight of the yuan in them is still limited, but it is growing rapidly, because a number of countries - especially Asian ones - are trying to leave the zone of influence of the West," Aglietta said.

He stressed that developments in Ukraine would have to accelerate "the rise of the yuan internationally and the loss of the dollar's dominance."

Earlier, economist Jamshid Adalatyan said that the creation of a trade union involving Russia, China and Iran, as well as a new world currency, could eventually lead to the end of the hegemony of the dollar in international trade.

Daisuke Karakama, chief economist at Japan's Mizuho Bank, said that Russia's disconnection from the SWIFT international banking system is fraught with a weakening of the dollar's role in global finance.