On March 14, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, appointed his 20-year-old daughter Khutmat as curator of the republic’s health care.

On March 14, the Nalchik City Court announced the decision to liquidate the public organization “Council of Elders of the Balkar People of the KBR.” The reason was an appeal by the head of the organization, Ismail Sabanchiev, and other activists to the country’s leadership, published in the newspaper “Bulletin of the Balkar People”. The court considered it a call to extremism.

People living in the village of Khushet, Tsumadi district of Dagestan, dragged a fellow villager on a stretcher on a mountain serpentine to the ambulance. There is no local hospital in the town.

Volunteer Ahmed Sadakov takes people who have come to Moscow for treatment, from the airport to the hospital. On his account - about 300 such charitable flights. 

From February 2022 to March 1, 2023, 114,000 people came to Armenia from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Almost half are ethnic Armenians.

The relatives of students from Ingushetia, Malik and Ramazan Gandaloev, who disappeared on 27 February, began to search for them themselves. They toured the route the brothers travelled, asking about them at Astrakhan Medical University.

The third day of the protest rally in the center of Tbilisi was relatively quiet. People burned the Russian flag and issued a new ultimatum to the authorities: resign.

On March 9, the ruling Georgian Dream party and the pro-government parliamentary group Power of the People announced that they were withdrawing the bill “On transparency in the financing of external influence,” which had already passed its first reading in parliament and caused loud protests from the opposition.

On average, guests of Dagestan last year spent 5.5 thousand rubles for a day of stay.  This is the result of an analysis based on the expenditures of tourists, which was calculated in Sber.

Relatives of missing students from Ingushetia Malik and Ramazan Gandaloevs announced a reward of 1 million rubles for information about their location. They were previously wanted by the police.