Russian Foreign Government minister Sergey Lavrov and Iranian Foreign Government minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian held an important joint printing-conference following talks in Moscow.

The links are here:  The Ruptly link was on their live stream and at present simply shows that the result has ended.  I accept not been able to get to the other link, as shortly after the following sanctions news, the Russian Ministry building of Foreign Affairs site went downwards once more.

https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202203151000-LIVE10285-Lavrov-Amir-Abdollahian-agree-press-briefing-in-Moscow
https://world wide web.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video

2.  Russia just did tit for tat sanctions.  This is from various press releases as the Russian Ministry of Strange Affairs site is down, and so far this cannot be confirmed at source :

Appearing at the superlative of the 13-proper noun listing is President Biden, followed by Blinken and Austin. Articulation Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, CIA Director William Burns, and White Business firm Press Secretary Jen Psaki are also named. Further down the list, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Biden's son Hunter – whose dealings with a Ukrainian energy business firm have previously been questioned and criticized – are also included.

Inclusion on the listing denies whatsoever of these people entry into the Russian federation. However, the Kremlin's argument said that Moscow would not rule out contact with American officials "if they meet our national interests."

More names will be added to the list "in the well-nigh future," the statement connected, warning that "top United states of america officials, military machine officials, lawmakers, businessmen, experts and media personalities who are Russophobic or contribute to inciting hatred towards Russia" volition also be blacklisted.

Update on Sanctions:  Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau

and

Russia has officially withdrawn from the Council of Europe.

2nd Update on Sanctions from the Russian Foreign Ministry building

17:37

Foreign Ministry statement concerning personal sanctions on Us senior officials and affiliated persons

513-15-03-2022

In response to a series of unprecedented sanctions that prohibit, among other things, entry to the United states for top officials of the Russian Federation, starting March xv, the Russian stop list includes, on the basis of reciprocity, President Joe Biden, Secretarial assistant of Land Antony Blinken, Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marking Milley, as well as several agency heads and other prominent US figures.

This step, taken every bit a response measure, is the inevitable event of the extreme Russophobic policy of the current US Administration, which, in a desperate attempt to maintain American hegemony, has abandoned any sense of decorum and placed its bets on the head-on containment of Russia.

However, we do not oppose maintaining official ties when it is in our national interests, and, if necessary, we will address the issues arising from the status of the black-listed individuals in guild to organise high-level contacts.

The list of Us citizens included in the terminate listing is as follows:

i. Joseph Robinette Biden;

two. Antony John Blinken;

3. Lloyd James Austin III;

4. Marker Alexander Milley;

5. Jacob Jeremiah Sullivan, National Security Advisor;

6. William Joseph Burns, Director of the CIA;

vii. Jennifer Rene Psaki, White House Printing Secretary;

8. Daleep Singh, Deputy National Security Advisor;

nine. Samantha Jane Power, Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development;

x. Robert Hunter Biden, son of the US President;

11. Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, former US presidential candidate;

12. Adewale Adeyemo, US Deputy Secretary of the Treasury;

thirteen. Reta Jo Lewis, President and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

More announcements volition be made soon concerning the expansion of the sanctions listing to include other top The states officials, military leaders, lawmakers, business executives, experts and media personalities who promote Russophobia or contribute to inciting hatred of Russia or imposing restrictive measures.

These actions will exist taken in harmony with the major decisions of the Government of the Russian federation in finance, banking and other areas to protect the Russian economy and ensure its stable evolution.

3. Economic News:  Translation from http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/03/this-is-important.html#disqus_thread

Translation:

YEREVAN, March xiv – Sputnik. The fellow member states of the Eurasian Economic Wedlock (EAEU) and Red china volition develop a project for an contained international monetary and financial system. This was agreed upon past the participants in the economic dialogue "A New Stage of Monetary, Financial and Economic Cooperation between the EAEU and the China. Global Transformations: Challenges and Solutions", which was held on March 11 via videoconference. It is envisaged that the system volition be based on a new international currency, which will be calculated every bit an index of the national currencies of the participating countries and commodity prices. The first draft volition exist submitted for give-and-take by the end of March. Equally Sergei Glazyev, Government minister for Integration and Macroeconomics of the EEC, emphasized, Mainland china was the offset in the earth to move to the stage of national economic recovery.

The background hither is bigger.  This was noted by Godfree Roberts:

In two weeks, China, Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyz republic volition reveal a new, independent, international monetary and financial system.

It volition exist based on a new international currency, calculated from an alphabetize of national currencies of the participating countries and international commodity prices. [Mar. 14, 2022, Sputnik News].

Russia and China will also reveal their Unfriendly Nation Lists.

Reliable links are however hard to come past in general.


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