Teenage Russian street musician gets 13 more days in prison after singing anti-Kremlin songs

A teenage Russian street musician who has spent nearly a month in jail after singing anti-Kremlin songs was handed another 13-day sentence on Tuesday

A teenage Russian street musician who has spent nearly a month in jail after singing anti-Kremlin songs was handed another 13-day sentence on Tuesday.

Diana Loginova, 18, who sings in a group called Stoptime, was arrested in her native St Petersburg last month and has already been jailed twice after belting out cover versions of songs penned by Kremlin critics in the heart of Russia’s second city.

Police in the city detained Loginova as she left prison on Monday, state media and her supporters said.

Loginova, 18, was first arrested with other band members last month and jailed for 13 days for a public order offence after her performance of a banned track, the “Swan Lake Cooperative,” by exiled anti-Kremlin Russian rapper Noize MC, went viral on social media.

The Swan Lake track got her into trouble because the famous ballet by Piotr Tchaikovsky is seen as a symbol of political change by some in Russia who remember it was shown on state TV after the death of Soviet leaders and during a 1991 coup against Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet president.