The performance of “NAIV” in St. Petersburg was postponed to 2024; Previously, the lead singer of the group spoke out in support of the family of schoolgirl Masha Moskaleva

The performance of the group “NAIV” in St. Petersburg, scheduled for April 19, was postponed to the spring of 2024. This was reported on the group’s social networks.

The message does not say anything about the reasons for postponing the concert. “The new date for the performance will be announced later,” they write in the “NAIV” group on VKontakte.

At the same time, on April 15, during a concert in Moscow, the lead singer of the group, Alexander “Chacha” Ivanov, appeared on stage wearing a T-shirt with the inscription “Masha Moskaleva” and told the audience about the persecution of the schoolgirl’s family. The concert took place at the 1930 Moscow club.

During his speech, Ivanov said: “Friends, taking this opportunity. I can’t pass by, I tried to push this matter away from me - I don’t know, I couldn’t, I don’t understand why, everything else worked out for some reason. For some reason this case of Masha Moskaleva does not let me go. Perhaps because my daughter is also the same age as her - she is 14, and Masha is 13. Friends, I want to ask you: Google this case, find out what happened there, be horrified by what happened to Masha and her family for the drawing she drew in art class." The audience, in response to the musician’s words, began to applaud and chant: “Fuck the war!”

The persecution of the Moskalev family began when the schoolgirl’s father, Alexei Moskalev, was summoned to the school because of his daughter’s anti-war drawing. Soon the man was fined under the article on “discrediting” the army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code) because of a comment on Odnoklassniki. against him Then a criminal case was opened because of a post about the murders in Bucha on the same social network.

Moskalev was placed under house arrest, and his daughter, whom he raised alone, was taken to a social rehabilitation center. Soon, the Efremovsky Interdistrict Court of the Tula Region sentenced Moskalev to two years in prison. Before the verdict was announced, the man tried to leave the country, but he was detained in Belarus. On April 13, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus announced that it had transferred Moskalev to Russia. Masha was taken from the shelter by her mother Olga Sitchikhina.

Previously, NAIV performances were canceled in Cherepovets and Yaroslavl due to denunciations to the prosecutor’s office by Lyubov Surova, a deputy of the Yaroslavl City Duma from United Russia. In her Telegram channel, Surova called the musicians’ work “ideological sabotage.” According to her, the leader of the team, Alexander Ivanov, “openly supports Ukraine and opposes Russia.”