Leninsky District Court in St. Petersburg on October 28, 2025 fined singer Diana Loginova, known as Naoko, 30,000 rubles under an administrative protocol on “discrediting” the army. The defense asked the court to terminate the case, arguing that no offense had been established. After the hearing, a law enforcement officer told the outlet Bumaga that Loginova had been procedurally detained and would be taken to a police station for a new protocol to be drawn up.
A day earlier, on October 27, Loginova had completed an earlier term of administrative arrest. As she left the detention center in Luga, police detained her and took her to the 76th police precinct over a new protocol. Bumaga reported that the same happened to Stoptime guitarist Alexander Orlov: two plainclothes men met him outside the detention center and forced him into a civilian car while he shouted that he did not know why he was being detained. The band’s drummer, Vladislav Leontyev, was due to be released the same day.
Lawyer Sergey Loktev told reporters that officers initially did not want to let him see his clients at the 76th precinct. At the same time, he said that, to his knowledge, no new protocols against the musicians had yet been formally issued. During the hearing, Loginova said she had been performing songs she liked on the streets of the city, citing Viktor Tsoi and Grazhdanskaya Oborona, and said she simply wanted to stand out through music.
Naoko also confirmed that she had not notified the authorities about the performances because they were usually spontaneous. According to Mediazona, she said that her street performances typically drew about 20 listeners at a time. Her lawyer also pointed to multiple flaws in the protocol, including the absence of the full lyrics of Monetochka’s song “Ty soldat,” as well as missing performance dates and missing signatures from the officials who drafted the document.
Diana Loginova is a third-year student at the Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory. Together with musicians from Stoptime, she performed songs by well-known artists on the streets of St. Petersburg, including songs by performers designated in Russia as “foreign agents.” Videos of her performances of songs by Pornofilmy, Monetochka, and Noize MC spread widely on social media. On October 15, security forces detained the singer and the musicians, and the next day a court placed all three under arrest in a case over organizing an unauthorized rally. Loginova also faced two separate protocols on “discrediting” the army for performing the songs “Ty soldat” and “Svetlaya polosa.”
After that, a wave of solidarity performances spread across Russian TikTok, with young people singing the same songs in public. On October 25, more than 100 people came to the presidential administration building in Moscow to submit appeals in support of the band. Dana Chubarova, secretary of the Moscow branch of the Rassvet party, said participants were demanding a review of what they called an unjust court ruling and wanted to defend freedom of speech, culture, and art. The appeal was also backed by Boris Nadezhdin, the Libertarian Party of Russia, the Left Socialist Action movement, and the Future movement.
The singer’s mother, Irina, said that during her arrest her daughter “was holding up well, drawing and reading a lot,” and that she learned while in detention about support from musicians in different cities, as well as leaflets and public appeals made in her defense.