Photo: Reuters Hundreds of migrants from Central Asia are hired to work in the territory of Ukraine occupied by Russia. Most migrants work at construction sites in cities destroyed by war, such as Mariupol. Another work is associated with digging trenches and the collection of corpses. As immigrants from Central Asia, they are lured to work in the occupied part of Ukraine, the Azattyk Radio (Kyrgyz edition of Radio Liberty) says.

In the capital of Russia, Moscow cut down forests in several areas at once. The sites are prepared for the needs of the Ministry of Defense, including for installing air defense systems, The Insider found out . In the Losin Island and on the experimental fields of the Timiryazevsky agricultural order, the S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems have already been deployed, the publication claims.

In support of the convicted former governor of Khabarovsk, they opened a criminal case of Gosizman to the activist of the Yamifurgal movement, TASS and RIA Novosti reported with reference to the FSB Central Department Store. The security forces claim that the girl sponsored the Armed Forces. The girl was detained by the FSB officers.

Russia transferred a train with prisoners to the occupied territories of the Donetsk region, among which there are women, the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces reported . “So, last week, a movement was noted towards the Donetsk region of the train with reserved seats for the transportation of prisoners. One of the wagons with convicted women,” the General Staff said. The department believes that this happens against the background of large losses of the personnel of the Russian troops in the war.

Photo: Anna-News The export of weapons from Russia fell by 31% in 2018–2022, and the country's share in the global market of weapons suppliers decreased from 22% to 16%. This is stated in the report of the Stockholm International Institute for Research Problems (Sipri). According to Sipri, in 2018–2022, Russia delivered weapons to 47 countries. The main buyers were the countries of Asia and Oceania (65%), the Middle East (17%) and Africa (12%).

The Dzerzhinsky district court of Kharkov satisfied the petition of the prosecutor of the Office of the Prosecutor General to release the sentence of the Russian military Maxim Krishtop from serving the sentence, writes the " Judicial Reporter " with reference to the Decree of March 6 According to a copy of the letter of the Coordinating headquarters on issues of processing prisoners of war, on March 3 it was decided to exchange Krishtop as a prisoner of war to liberate the defenders of Ukraine

The Embassy of the Russian Federation in Serbia. Photo: Wikipedia Some Russian diplomats, who, after the start of a full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation, were sent to Ukraine from the EU countries, still remained in Europe. At least eight employees of Russian embassies began to engage in the embassy in Serbia - one of the few European countries that did not begin to impose sanctions against Russia.

The International Criminal Court intends to open two cases of war crimes related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and will demand the arrest of several people. These cases are the first international charges made from the beginning of the conflict after the months of work of special investigative groups, writes The New York Times , citing the current and former officials who know about this decision.

Photo: DW.com After the second stage of the EU oil embargo, oil from Russia practically ceased to come to Germany. According to the Federal Statistical Office, in January 2023, Germany imported only 3,500 tons of Russian oil, DW reports. In January 2022 - a month before the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine - Germany received 2.8 million tons of oil from Russia. "Russian oil supplies have practically ceased. Mathematically they decreased by 99.9%," statistics said.

Photo: pivo.by In February 2023, alcoholic beverages in Belarus went up by 4.59%. As Belstat calculated , the cost of bitter tinctures of strong, in particular, became more by 9.53%, vodka - by 7.35%, grape fortified - by 4%. Why this happened, explained the Minister of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade Alexei Bogdanov on Belarus24, writes KP in Belarus.

The Moldova Police detained seven members of the “pro -Russian” agent network who arrived in the country to destabilize the situation against the background of anti -government protests, Spiegel writes with reference to the head of the General Commissariat of Police, Viorela Chernusana. According to him, one of the employees of the Moldovan police, under cover, was introduced into a group, whose members promised up to 10 thousand dollars for creating riots during protests.

Photo: Roscosmos In Kazakhstan, the property of the chief operator of Russian cosmodromes - the Center for the Operation of ground -based space infrastructure (Tsanki) - the "daughter" of Roscosmos was arrested. A formal reason for this was a debt for 13.5 billion tenge, or 2 billion rubles, in front of JSC "joint Kazakh-Russian enterprise" Baiterek ". The debt arose as a result of work on assessing the impact on the environment of the Soyuz-5 missile.

On March 8 and 9, mass protests were held in Tbilisi against the adoption of the Law on foreign agents. The law was nicknamed “Russian” because of its similarity to similar repressive law in the Russian Federation, which is used to persecute dissent members of civil society and independent press.

As the losses of the Russian army in Ukraine multiply and, according to Western data, exceeded 200 thousand people killed and wounded, in official statistics there are inconsistencies with the calculation of the number of dead in the country, writes The Moscow Times. Each month, Russian registry offices record about 2-3 thousand deaths, which subsequently do not fall into the statistics of Rosstat, calculated the demographer Alexei Raksha.

VTB Kazakhstan Bank began issuing Mir cards. This is stated in the publication on the official page of a financial organization in VK. The digital version began to be released at the end of last year. " We fix the stable demand for world cards in Kazakhstan from retail customers, transactions are made on them regularly. Mostly users pay using cards on trips to Russia, they pay for educational and IT services.