A cafe employee in the Rostov region was fined for a song by Serduchka.

The court found the performance of Verka Serduchka's song on March 8th at a café in the Leninakan village to be defamatory of the Russian army and fined the establishment's employee 45,000 rubles.

The musician was held administratively liable for playing a song discrediting the armed forces, the press service of the Myasnikovsky District Court reported.

The court established that on March 8, 2026, Mr. B., while working part-time as a musician at a café in the Leninakan village in the Myasnikovsky District, publicly played a song by a Ukrainian artist using a stereo system that discredited the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

At the court hearing, he admitted his guilt, explaining that he played the song at the request of a café patron and that the artist could not be identified by the song's title. After hearing the lyrics, he stopped playing the song.

The court found him guilty and sentenced him to an administrative fine of 45,000 rubles, the report states.

According to the case file on the court's website, on March 11, the court heard a single administrative offense case – a report on discrediting the army against Gaik Bugayan.

The song in question concerns Verka Serduchka's "Gulyanka," writes Mediazona (listed as a foreign agent). This song quotes lyrics from the Ukrainian anthem.

On March 9, a video playing the song "Gulyanka" was published on the Telegram channel "Eto Rostov."

Attached to the post was a video of people dancing to the song in a cafe.

"Caucasian Knot" also wrote that in 2023, Krasnodar Mayor Yevgeny Naumov ordered an inspection of the city's karaoke clubs after a video was published online showing patrons of one such club singing and dancing to a Verka Serduchka song.