International relations

The largest investor of Iran in the last financial year, which ended this week, was Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in the Congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. During the event, the head of state delivered a speech.

The authorities of Saudi Arabia and Iran signed an agreement on the resumption of diplomatic relations following the talks in Beijing. The mutual opening of embassies should take place within the next two months.

The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrel, proposed to allocate 1 billion euros for the supply of ammunition to Kiev and so much more for the purchase of shells. The head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov said that the APU needs twice as much. This is reported by Bloomberg.

Estonian President Alar Karis refused to sign and publish a law passed by parliament on the demolition of Soviet monuments as dangerous and inciting enmity objects. He motivated his decision by the vagueness of the wording and inconsistencies with the Constitution, so the bill was returned for revision.

A video of US military equipment arriving at the Polish port of Gdynia has appeared on the Web. In the footage, you can see hundreds of tanks, tankers, infantry fighting vehicles of medical units and other types of armored vehicles.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (pictured) said that Russia will not allow the West to "blow up gas pipelines again" and will refuse to orient its energy policy towards the West in the future.

At the meeting of the foreign ministers of the G20 countries, which took place on March 1-2 in Delhi, the participants failed to come to a consensus on the situation in Ukraine. In this regard, it was decided not to make a collective statement. This was announced by Indian Foreign Minister Subramanyam Jaishankar in an interview with the Associated Press.

The Afghan authorities, represented by members of the Taliban movement*, announced the liquidation of the commander of the Islamic State branch** (DAESH**) — "Velayat Khorasan"**, who led attacks on mosques and foreign missions in the country.

The UK authorities have imposed sanctions against 92 Russian individuals and legal entities. They included the heads of Rosatom.