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The signatories of the petition in support of Ara Sagatelyan, a former chief of staff of the Armenian Parliament, who was arrested within the case of fakes during the aggravation of the Karabakh conflict, treat his arrest as a political persecution.

During the week of February 22-28, 2021, during the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, two people were wounded; there was no information about any casualties. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

On February 28, the "National Democratic Pole" movement held a torchlight march timed to the 33rd anniversary of pogroms in Sumgait. The action began with a minute of silence in memory of the victims, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Relatives of Said-Mukhammad Djumaev, a Chechen, arrested for a brawl with law enforcers at a rally in support of Alexei Navalny in Moscow, managed to talk to him in the courtroom and make sure that he received their parcels, it follows from the videos posted by them in social networks.

Narek Malyan, the leader of the "Veto" movement, is accused of inciting violence for staging the execution of Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu. He has admitted that the performance was addressed to the Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan.

In his last plea in court, Martin Kochesoko has denied the charges of drug dealing and called his public activities the reason for his prosecution. Law enforcers fabricated the case unconvincingly; the public is confident in the activist's innocence, Kochesoko's supporters have stated.

In Tskhinvali, a protest action is stopped because of the health state of Inal Djabiev's parents. The family intends to wait for the trial.

Law enforcers have detained Akhmed Pogorov, a co-chairman of the World Congress of Ingush People, who was on the wanted list within the case of a rally in Magas, his advocate has informed.

The version of Chechen law enforcers that LGBT people, Salekh Magamadov, and his underage brother supplied militants, who treat same-sex relations as a sin, is unrealistic, Alexei Malashenko believes. The resonant detention of Chechen residents in another region has forced authorities to fabricate a case, but by doing so they equated LGBT people to terrorists, said Mikhail Roschin, an Orientalist.

In his last plea, Vadim Tekhov, sentenced to 16 years in a high-security colony for killing his ex-wife, Regina Gagieva, has pled guilty and repented. The victims failed to believe in his sincerity. The founder of the "Khotae" community to help domestic violence victims has stated that activists are satisfied with the verdict.

The Georgia's General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has expressed its readiness to release Nika Meliya, the leader of the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party, from custody on bail, but advocates have criticized this proposal as politically motivated. The court refused to consider the defence's appeal against the oppositionist's arrest.

In Karachay-Cherkessia, an attack on law enforcers in the village of Uchkeken was preceded by a suicide bomber's attack on FSB agents in the same village in 2020.

In Baku, a court has begun a consideration of a case instituted against participants of a rally in support of the army. The defendants pleaded not guilty, and the opposition claimed the prosecution was politically motivated.

In the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), a policeman and a "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard) serviceman were stabbed and received gunshot wounds while trying to check the driver's documents; two attackers managed to escape.