In Ryazan, musicians participating in the street music festival “Music of the Postal Service” were prohibited from performing songs of “foreign agents” at the event - this decision was made by the cultural department of the city administration. The Ryazan Gazette is about this.

In addition, festival participants were prohibited from performing songs “with extremist content” and profanity. The city's public council also considered the possibility of banning musicians from performing songs in foreign languages, but officials considered this ban inappropriate.

After the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, street musicians singing anti-war songs, or songs, began to be detained in Russia. In December 2022, the Legislative Assembly of Deputies of St. Petersburg even introduced rules for street performances, obliging musicians to coordinate them with the city administration and “not to promote war.” in Ukrainian introduced - As of June 8, there were 25 artists in the registers of “foreign agents”, most of whom are musicians, including those who oppose the war in Ukraine. Many of them left Russia.

listed - In the fall of 2021, OVD-Info launched the project. We explore the practice of applying laws on “foreign agents”, talk about their impact on civil society and specific people, initiate discussions with experts and suggest ways of possible changes. In December 2021, together with the Center for the Protection of Media Rights, we began to provide legal support to people and organizations that were included in the registers of “foreign agents”

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Musicians were banned from performing songs of “foreign agents” at the Ryazan street music festival