Russian street musician is jailed for 13 days after she played banned song

ST PETERSBURG: 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 18-year-old music student who performs under the name Naoko with her band Stoptime, was arrested on Wednesday after her performance of the popular song “Swan Lake Cooperative” by exiled Russian rapper Noize MC went viral on Russian social media. A video showed a crowd of youngsters singing along with Loginova in a rare show of public defiance of the authorities, given the risk of arrest. A St.

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