Second arrest for Stoptime and Naoko. Support of musicians. Internet is singing “You’re a Soldier.”

Second arrest for Stoptime and Naoko. Support of musicians. Internet is singing “You’re a Soldier.”

You're watching news from the weekly rally in front of the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is November 8, 2:30 PM.

In our October 18th video, we reported that young musicians from the Stoptime band, including vocalist Diana Loginova, who performs under the stage name Naoko, were arrested following a complaint from a member of parliament for performing songs by “foreign agents.”
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On October 28th, the BBC Russian Service reported that Diana Loginova had been sentenced to administrative arrest for a second consecutive time—an additional 13 days. Diana denies guilt. The band’s guitarist, Alexander Orlov, will also serve the same amount of time in custody.
www.bbc.com/russian/articles/cq508l2v349o

Diana is 18 years old; Alexander is 22. You can see them on the Stoptime Telegram channel.
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Watch Stoptime and Naoko performing on the street of St. Petersburg and see how many people are listening. Also watch Naoko sings Monetochka’s “You’re a Soldier.” Links in the description.
www.youtube.com/shorts/OG7FiRKYdNo
www.youtube.com/shorts/ILLxUj1r74o

The arrest of the Stoptime musicians sparked a strong reaction, with many street musicians singing in their support. On November 6, Meduza reported on a St. Petersburg police report about a series of raids against street musicians. From October 20th to 31st, 23 administrative reports were filed.
meduza.io/news/2025/11/06/meriya-peterburga-otchitalas-o-reydah-protiv-ulichnyh-muzykantov-u-nih-iz-yali-orudiya-soversheniya-administrativnyh-pravonarusheniy-v-perevode-na-russkiy-muzykalnye-instrumenty

You can find numerous videos across social media with the hashtags #свободунаоко (#freenaoko) and #свободустоптайм (#freestoptime). Some are amazing: children—essentially children—speak out in support, with tears of fear in their eyes. I fear for their fate, and I simply don’t know how anyone could do nothing to help them.

We’ve created subtitles for Monetochka’s “You’re a Soldier” in Russian, English, Portuguese, and Italian. Link in the description.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8StxhvQj4T8

Join those singing in support of the arrested musicians and tell your musician friends about this campaign. Here are a few examples:

Ruslana Koroleva performs “You're a Soldier” on the “Turboguitar” channel in support of Naoko and shows the chords:
www.youtube.com/shorts/RIhnCD10uec

Laureen performs “You're a Soldier” on the Lithuanian kankles on the “Kankles.Laureen” channel:
www.youtube.com/shorts/vzJ7H4NUxWk

Darmen performs an enhanced version of “You're a Soldier” on the Instagram account “guitar_darmen” in support of Naoko:
www.instagram.com/p/DQSEttojOQx/

The artisans on the “inexhaustible international ######” channel used artificial intelligence to create a cover of Yegor Letov singing “You're a Soldier”:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHzmG5d_Rkw

Vikus Fikus performs “You're a Soldier” on piano in support of Naoko on her TikTok:
www.tiktok.com/@vikus048/video/7565604929704840478

Join these musicians!

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