The Naiv group announced the postponement of their concert, which was to take place on April 19 in St. Petersburg, for a year – until spring 2024. This was reported on their Instagram account*.
“The new performance date will be announced later. All tickets purchased are valid and do not require exchange,” the message reads without stating the reasons for the postponement of the event.
Two days ago, on April 15, at a concert in Moscow, the soloist of “Naiva” Alexander “Chacha” Ivanov took the stage in a T-shirt with the inscription “Masha Moskaleva” and, addressing the public, spoke in favor of the schoolgirl and her father. The musician noted that this story “doesn’t let up” and advised his fans to google information about the Moskalevs to learn more about their persecution. The hall reacted to Ivanov’s words with applause and anti-war cries.
Previously, the Naiv group took part in the After Russia project, a musical album compiled by director and producer Roman Liberov in honor of the centenary of the beginning of the first wave of Russian emigration. The musicians he invited to cooperate wrote songs based on poems by Russian poets abroad. Pro-war Telegram channels demanded that it be removed from music platforms because of what they considered “anti-Russian” content.
Persecution of the Moskalevs
Security forces became interested in Alexei Moskalev, a resident of the town of Efremov, in the Tula region, after in April 2022 his daughter, whom he is raising alone, drew an anti-war drawing during a a lesson in fine arts – it depicted Russian and Ukrainian flags with the inscriptions “No to war” and “Glory to Ukraine” respectively, as well as a woman with a child, in which rockets fly from side of the Russian flag.
The girl was taken out of school. Then FSB agents came to the school and talked to him. After that, she stopped going to school. Soon an administrative protocol was drawn up against his father to “discredit” the army due to comments to Odnoklassniki and a fine of 32,000 rubles.
“You are the hero. My hero”. Published a letter from a schoolgirl whose father was sentenced to two years for “discrediting” the army
In December 2022, a criminal case was opened against Moskalev for “discrediting” Russian troops, searches were carried out and his daughter was taken to a social institution. The day after the interrogation, he took the girl from the shelter and left Efremov, but on March 1, 2023 he was detained in the Tula region, and on March 2 he was placed under house arrest. The man’s daughter was again placed in a social rehabilitation center and refused to let her father return home.
Moskalev’s verdict
On March 28, the Efremovskiy district court of the Tula region sentenced Aleksey Moskalev to two years in prison for “discrediting” the Russian army. The verdict was read in the absence of the accused, since he did not appear at the hearing. Court spokeswoman Olga Dyachuk said Moskalev escaped house arrest.
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Soon, former Channel One editor Marina Ovsyannikova, who also escaped house arrest in 2022 before the trial for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces, wrote on her Telegram channel that Moskalev was “between in good hands, everything will be fine for him. “However, on March 30, the man was arrested in Minsk by local law enforcement officers at the request of Russian colleagues.
The Belarusian Interior Ministry confirmed that Moskalev’s detention was carried out at the official request of the Russian side, then announced that he had been handed over to Russia. Daughter of Alexei taken her mother, who lives in the Tambov region, although before that the Commissioner for Children’s Rights to the President of Russia, Maria Lvova-Belova, announced the selection of a replacement family for the girl .
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