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US dollar’s monopoly to slowly end: Head of Russian bank

​​​​ST. PETERSBURGThe US dollar’s monopoly will slowly end as Washington is using it for political purposes, Andrey Kostin, CEO of the Russian VTB Bank, said in a recent statement.Kostin told Anadolu at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum that sanctions imposed on Russia are illegitimate and the country is used to the treatment by the international community.“Sanctions are certainly bad, but we have to work regardless,” he said. Kostin stated that there has been a pause in sanctions on Russia during US President Donald Trump’s second term in office but...