Criminal proceedings have been initiated against unidentified employees of the historical-educational and human rights society «Memorial» under the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation «Rehabilitation of Nazism». No official documents or requests have yet been received by the organization’s lawyers.

The Georgian government is not against the arrival of Polish doctors to examine ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili. This was reported in the Ministry of Justice of the country.

More than 10 NGOs of Georgia called on the authorities to respect the rights of citizens detained during the March 2 protest against the law on foreign agents before the Parliament. Tbilisi City Court released on bail seven of the 36 activists.

On March 3, the Krasnogvardeisky District Court of Adygea fined a local resident, 39-year-old Igor Korotkov, 800 thousand rubles under the criminal “article on fakes” (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”).

The European Court of Human Rights had announced a number of decisions in Azerbaijan’s cases. 

The Lenin court of Makhachkala fined 30 thousand rubles of Zaur Rajabov under the article about «discrediting» of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The foundation was posts in Instagram with calls "no war", "bring home Russian troops", "stop killer Putin, stop Putin, stop Russian aggression".

Russia is biased against Crimean Tatars. When Moscow prepares lists of prisoners of war for exchange, it always excludes Crimean Tatar names. This was reported by the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the leader of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Mustafa Cemilev.

On March 2, the ASTRA telegram channel reported that a criminal case had been opened in Chechnya against Muslim Madiev, the deputy commander of the Chechen battalion named after Dzhokhar Dudayev, who has been fighting on the side of Ukraine since 2014.

On March 2, the appellate instance of the Supreme Court of Chechnya, having considered a complaint from the Russian Ministry of Finance, reduced compensation to a local resident who suffered from illegal criminal prosecution to 150 thousand rubles.

On March 2, in the Rostov District Military Court, chaired by Judge Rizvan Zubairov, another criminal trial began against detachment member Shamil Basayev. Roman Gakaev is accused of three serious articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: armed rebellion, banditry and encroachment on the lives of military personnel.