In Tbilisi, Georgia, special forces used water cannons and teargas against protestors who tried to enter Georgia’s parliament building, on Rustaveli Avenue. On March 8, for the second night in a row, opponents of a new piece of legislation on “foreign agents,” currently under review by members of parliament, gathered to protest in the city center.

In the evening of March 8, in the evening of March 8, in Tbilisi, the special forces again used waterlets and tear gas against the protesters, who tried to surround and penetrate the parliament building on Rustaveli Avenue. In the capital of Georgia, protests on the bill on “foreign agents” continue for several days. On the eve of March 7, when the parliament accepted the document in the first reading, the police strictly dispersed the mass protest, delaying more than 70 people.

Special forces in Tbilisi used water cannons and tear gas against protesters who tried to enter the building of the Georgian Parliament on Rustaveli Avenue. On the evening of March 8, the opponents of the draft law on "foreign agents", which is being considered by Georgian deputies, again gathered in the city center.

Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs announced the arrest of a person suspected of assaulting a police officer during mass protests on March 7, near Georgia’s parliament building on Rustaveli Avenue. A ministry press release notes that the suspect was born in 2001. He faces between four and seven years in prison. The internal affairs ministry also announced that 76 protestors had been arrested and charged with hooliganism and disobeying police orders.

Alexey Venediktov, the former editor-in-chief of the radio station Echo of Moscow, responded to research from Alexey Navalny’s associates at the Anti-Corruption Foundation. The Anti-Corruption Foundation accused Venediktov, among other journalists, of “divvying up the Moscow city budget” via a city-sponsored public works campaign call Moi Raion (My Neighborhood).

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia announced the arrest of a suspect in an attack on a policeman during a protest rally held on the evening of March 7 near the parliament building on Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi. The agency's press release notes only that the detainee was born in 2001. Under Article 353.1 of the Criminal Code of Georgia, he faces four to seven years in prison.

Former editor-in-chief of Ekho Moskvy, Alexei Venediktov, responded to an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Foundation, in which Alexei Navalny’s associates accused him, among other journalists, of “cutting the budget of Moscow” through the city improvement program “My District”. The FBK stated that Venediktov received 680 million rubles from the Moscow City Hall under a contract for the publication of the My District magazine.

FSB operatives have arrested a 19-year-old political activist in the Karelian town of Sortavala, not far from the Finnish border. Nikita Klyunya, vice-president of the National Council within the grassroots Civil Alliance of Russia, is now in custody in Petrozavodsk. The FSB is building a “railway sabotage” case against him.

The court of Belgorod arrested for two months the former mayor of the city, Anton Ivanov, in a criminal case on a bribe on an especially large scale, reports . RIA Novosti Lawyer Elena Palymova said that Ivanov is suspected of taking a bribe in the form of a car worth almost three million rubles. The former official was detained in early March while trying to fly to Uzbekistan. During the meeting, Ivanov said that he was going to leave Russia in search of work.

The Russian Premier League (RPL) has announced that the March 11 Torpedo–Ural match, scheduled to take place at the Moscow Luzhniki Stadium as part of the Russian soccer championship, is being moved to the suburban Arena Khimki. Earlier, a joint inspection by the Russian Football Union and the RPL deemed the Luzhniki soccer lawn unsuitable for hosting a game. The management of Luzhniki has declined to comment on the reasons for moving the match.

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Following the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) March 7 report on the probable capture of eastern Bakhmut by the Russian forces, Evgeny Prigozhin issued a statement confirming ISW’s conjecture.

The Iranian authorities secretly supplied Russia with a large batch of ammunition for the war in Ukraine and plan to continue deliveries, Sky News writes, citing an anonymous source in law enforcement agencies. The interlocutor of the TV channel claims that on January 10, the Musa Jalil and Begey cargo ships under the Russian flag departed from the Iranian port, carrying about 200 transport containers with weapons.

The leadership of the Russian Premier League (RPL) announced the transfer of the match of the 19th round of the Russian Football Championship between Torpedo and Ural from the Moscow Luzhniki stadium to the Khimki Arena near Moscow. The team meeting is scheduled for March 11. Earlier, a joint commission of the RPL and the Russian Football Union (RFU) conducted an inspection of Luzhniki and declared the stadium lawn unsuitable for the match.

The Swiss prosecutor's office suspected four bankers of insufficient diligence in conducting financial transactions and assisting the Russian cellist and friend of Vladimir Putin, Sergei Roldugin. According to Reuters , whose journalists read the indictment of the department, the Russian made large money transfers to accounts in Swiss banks without any proper checks by employees. The case will be heard in the Zurich District Court on March 8.