The Friday prayer of Muslims in the village of Adigeni in Georgia was disrupted due to a protest organized by local residents against its holding. The Georgian Muslim Union condemned the persecution of people on ethnic and religious grounds and demanded an investigation into the incident.

New opportunities are being actively discussed in Armenia, including the idea of EU membership. Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan stated this in an interview with TRT World.

OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Teresa Ribeiro called on the Azerbaijani authorities to release all media workers who are under arrest. In particular, 14 employees of the independent publication Toplum TV were detained the day before. Three have been charged with smuggling: correspondent Farid Ismailov, video editor Mushvig Jabbar, social media manager Elmir Abbasov.

On March 8, 2005, the President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Aslan Maskhadov, died in the village of Tolstoy-Yurt. During a special operation, he was killed by Russian security forces.

Today the Balkar people remember the Stalinist deportation that began 80 years ago. On March 8, 1944, 37 thousand people, mostly old people, women and children, were deported to Kazakhstan and Central Asia.

The Maikop City Court of Adygea found Inver Siyukhov guilty of organizing the activities of an extremist organization and sentenced him to 6 years in prison.

The riots of 2023, which led to the disruption of the Makhachkala airport, became a striking example of the West’s attempts to shake up the situation in the North Caucasus Federal District. Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev announced this at a meeting in Ingushetia on national security issues.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, called the information about the existence of a “black market” in the Russian Federation fake, where Ukrainian prisoners of war are purchased for their subsequent exchange for captured Chechens.

After searches in the Bakhchisarai and Dzhankoy regions of Crimea, the Kiev District Court of Simferopol sent five detainees to a pre-trial detention center. These are Enver Khalilayev, Nariman Ametov, Ali Mamutov, the imam of the mosque in the village of Lobanovo Vakhid Mustafayev and activist Arsen Kashka.

KBR resident Khusen Gukov received a suspended sentence of one and a half years. He was found guilty in a criminal case for discrediting the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code).