"It is becoming increasingly difficult to do, more and more difficult, if not impossible, when powerful economic giants are rising, primarily on the Eurasian continent, but also in Africa and Latin America. And this struggle for hegemony, for maintaining hegemony using sanctions, blackmail, threats, armed forces – this is a struggle for the passing era," Lavrov said at a meeting with the heads of foreign missions under the theme of conflict resolution in Ukraine.
"We have already discussed this topic, when a coup d'etat is organized and it is declared that democracy has prevailed in some country, when revolutionary forces come to power somewhere in Africa, say, who want to get rid of the last shackles of neo-colonialism, then this is called a violation of the constitution, sanctions are imposed and much more," Russia's top diplomat added.