Russian armed forces shelled the Kherson and Kharkov regions. Five deaths were reported.

Activist of the opposition Azerbaijan People’s Front (PNFA) Zamin Salaev has been on hunger strike for 26 days demanding to be released from pre-trial detention. He had hemorrhages in his stomach, his family told him. Salaev was also forbidden to see his family.

Former President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili reported significant deterioration of his state of health during 18 months in detention. According to him, he is «near death» and lost weight from 120 to 65 kg.

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.

In the Donetsk region, 2 people were killed and 4 were injured as a result of Russian shelling

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.

More than 20 civil society and media activists of Azerbaijan stated that the conditions of registration and control of the Media Development Agency over the activities of the press and journalists are in fact censorship and aimed at suppressing free votes.

Russian citizens who settled in Crimea after 2014, should not delay their departure, so that a few months later not stuck in a stream of fleeing before the liberation of the peninsula by Ukraine. This was written by the head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Chubarov.

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”).