Diana Loginova, an 18-year-old street musician performing under the name Naoko, charged with discrediting Russia's armed forces, attends a court hearing in Saint Petersburg, Russia October 28, 2025.

In a rare and almost unthinkable act of defiance in today’s Russia, a small crowd of young people gathered in central St. Petersburg to sing anti-war and anti-Kremlin songs, led by 18-year-old ...

A Russian court Tuesday extended the jailing of an 18-year-old street singer on charges seen as punishment for performing anti-war songs, an action denounced by human rights activists as part of a ...

Ored Recordings documents chants, laments and displacement songs of the Caucasus threatened by erasure. After the invasion of Ukraine, its ‘punk ethnography’ has never been more urgent ...

ST PETERSBURG, Oct 16 (Reuters) - A teenage Russian street musician was jailed for 13 days on Thursday after she played a banned anti-Kremlin song on St Petersburg's central avenue. Diana Loginova, an ...

The Russian prosecution office opened a case against 18-year-old Diana “Naoko” Loginova, a student at the Rimsky-Korsakov Music College and vocalist of the St. Petersburg street band Stoptime. The ...

Ukraine is using music to disrupt Russian aeroballistic Kinzhal missiles, which Russia calls "invincible." A special unit jams the missiles’ satellite signals by replacing them with a well-known ...

EADaily, . The richest artist in the Russia is a composer and performer, People's Artist of the Russian Federation Yuri ...

Russia Crackdown Diana Loginova, an 18-year-old Russian singer of Stoptime street band who served two consecutive 13-day prison sentences on various misdemeanor charges, sits during a court session in ...

A Russian court Tuesday extended the jailing of an 18-year-old street singer on charges seen as punishment for performing anti-war songs, an action denounced by human rights activists as part of a ...