Armenia is constructive in the negotiations on normalization of relations with Azerbaijan, and a peace treaty should guarantee lasting stability in the region. This was stated by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin. 

The Chukchi Autonomous Okrug had the highest wage growth of 54.5 per cent, Mordovia 54.2 per cent and Dagestan 46.8 per cent. These are Rosstat’s data.

During the night, the police detained 36 people at a protest outside the parliament building in Tbilisi. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they are accused of minor hooliganism and disobedience to the authorities. 

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.

In the Kherson region on the afternoon of March 2, the Russian Armed Forces fired drones at people standing in line for humanitarian aid.

The Southern District Military Court received a criminal case against Crimean Tatars Enver Krog, Vilen Temerianov, Rinat Aliyev, Murat Mustafayev, Seigna Abbozov and Eden Bekirov. They are accused of association with the banned Islamic political party «Hizb ut-Tahrir» and actions in favor of Ukraine.