The Venice Commission of the Council of Europe and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights published an opinion on Azerbaijan’s law on political parties. It was adopted at the end of last year and signed by the President in January 2023, provoking sharp criticism of the opposition.

The prosecution repeatedly requested the examination of articles by Dagestan journalist Abdulmumin Hajiyev, which will not be ready before April. As a result, the trial, which has lasted for more than three years, is once again being delayed. 

The Pyatigorsk Garrison Court denied the claim to Senior Sergeant Arthur Turabov of the HRC, who tried to challenge the dismissal from the armed forces. Earlier, he did not agree to go on a combat trip - the war with Ukraine.

A couple of days ago Baku responded to proposals sent by Yerevan on the text of the peace treaty, but tries to break the "red lines" of Armenia. This was stated by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

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.