Krasnodar authorities have required street musicians to obtain approval for their performances.

To perform on the streets of Krasnodar, musicians will need to submit an application to the mayor's office 20 days in advance, specifying the repertoire they plan to perform.

The Krasnodar administration has adopted procedures for conducting street performances.

Now, 20 days before their performance, street performers must submit a package of documents to the administration for approval of their application. Applications will be accepted in person by the Department of Culture and must include: the full name, residential and registered addresses, passport information of all participants in the performance, and copies of their passports; the applicant's telephone number, postal address, and email address; the address of the performance venue (out of 27 available spaces); the date and time of the concert; the name of the group; and their stage name.

Groups with no more than six members are permitted to perform. They must also provide a list of equipment, a list of songs, a video recording of a sample performance, and consent to the processing of their personal data, according to a resolution posted on the Krasnodar City Hall website.

The resolution was adopted amid the persecution of the band Stoptime, which performed songs by "foreign agents" on the streets of St. Petersburg. On December 24, Stoptime vocalist Diana (Naoko) Loginova and guitarist Alexander Orlov were released from a special detention center after three arrests. The young men have left Russia, according to "Horizontal Russia"*.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" reported, residents of Krasnodar's Yubileyny microdistrict are demanding that construction be stopped on Rozhdestvenskaya Embankment, where a church is planned—the third in the microdistrict. On November 30, hundreds of neighborhood residents gathered to record a video message to the governor.

Earlier, despite numerous protests from Yubileiny residents, Krasnodar authorities rejected all objections to the embankment development, but took into account the position of those supporting the construction of the church. Residents are confident that only the attention of federal authorities will help prevent the development of the green recreation area. Together with representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, they began collecting signatures demanding the resignation of Mayor Yevgeny Naumov.