A Russian Su-27 fighter intercepted and damaged an American MQ-9 Reaper drone, after which it crashed in the waters of the Black Sea.

Zamin Salayev, an activist of the opposition party of the Azerbaijan People’s Front, has been starving in protest for 35 days. His state of health remains grave. The prisoner cannot walk and speaks with difficulty, but doctors do not visit him.

A North Ossetian political prisoner, activist and opera singer Vadim Celdiyev, wrote that his three-year solitary confinement had ended and he had been "among the people, not among the walls" for over a month.

A representative of the Polish Government offered to send doctors for examination and treatment to ex-President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili in detention. Warsaw awaits the consent of the Georgian side.

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.

On March 13, the magistrate court in Rostov-on-Don dropped the criminal case against Kirill Skripin, accused of vandalism due to the graffiti “Putin is a thief.” The judge dismissed the case due to the expiration of the statute of limitations - March 12 marked two years since Skripin’s arrest.

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. 

Head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People Renat Chubarov called on the Crimean people to prepare shelters. According to him, this year the army of Ukraine may launch an offensive to liberate the peninsula. 

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

Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov met in Moscow with President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. We carry out all your orders. Chechens fully support the special operation in Ukraine. Thank you for everything you do for Chechnya», - Kadyrov reported.