MOSCOW, March 21. /TASS/. Washington will no longer be able to dictate oil prices in the Middle East, Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Chief Sergey Naryshkin said in the documentary "Oil" on the Premier online platform.

"The ‘hegemon’ has lost a step. It is no longer able to prompt Middle East countries to move in line with the interests of the United States of America in their policy as regards oil production," Naryshkin said.

The US cannot dictate prices, although they would like to. "[They] cannot because the world is becoming a multipolar one," Naryshkin noted. "This multipolarity is expressed in particular in the existence of the group of countries known as OPEC+," he said.

OPEC+ is a cornerstone institution, the Russian intelligence chief said. "This is a wholesale trend that will definitely evolve, particularly as regards exploiting and using such wealth that humankind has, which is called oil," he concluded.