ST PETERSBURG, Russia, Oct 28 (Reuters) - An 18-year-old Russian street musician jailed for nearly two weeks earlier this month for playing a banned anti-Kremlin song was found guilty on Tuesday of ...

By Lucy Papachristou (Reuters) -Two young street musicians who were jailed for more than a month in Russia for singing ...

A new generation of dissident artists is inspiring a wave of solidarity against Putin’s war—recalling the Soviet people who ...

Music is a powerful tool of resistance, and has been used this way for centuries. In the late years of USSR music played a big role in supporting dissent and new ideas. More recently, in Russia, which ...

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 ...

The group, called Stoptime, had been performing anti-Kremlin songs for months and gaining in popularity before the authorities moved against the open dissent. By Ivan Nechepurenko Reporting from St.

Stoptime's show on the central Nevsky Prospekt has spawned several solidarity performances of other anti-Kremlin songs by ...

Saint Petersburg – A Russian court on Tuesday sent an 18-year-old street musician who performed anti-war songs to jail for a third time as the Kremlin mounts a no-limits crackdown on any signs of ...

EADaily, November 25th, 2025. Former soloist of the popular in Russian group "VIA Gra", Ukrainian singer Svetlana Loboda ...

Authorities have intensified their crackdown on any opposition to the Kremlin since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine ...

KINGSBURG, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Russian band has been overwhelmed by the support from American audiences, especially in the Valley. With their spot on sounds of Chicago, Leonid and Friends can't wait to ...