The House of Representatives of the US Congress passed a Republican bill to raise the debt ceiling while reducing budget spending. At the moment, the bill is being sent to the Democratic-controlled Senate.
In March, Alexei Drobinin, director of the foreign policy planning department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, expressed confidence that the dollar is nothing more than a "piece of paper on trust" The diplomat pointed to the deepening crisis of the Western model of globalization, which is due to the fact that the political motives of the United States and its allies outweighed the economic ones.