N.R.M.

(Belarusian: Незалежная Рэспубліка Мроя, romanized: Niezaležnaja Respublika Mroja, [nʲɛzaˈlɛʐnaja rɛˈspublika ˈmrɔja], "Independent Republic of Dreams" in English) are a rock band from Minsk, Belarus, founded in 1981 as Mroja (Belarusian: Мроя).

Mroja were founded in 1981 at Alexei Glebov University in Minsk by Lavon Volski (keys, vocals) and Vladimir Davidovsky (guitar).

Like several other bands that sing in Belarus, they have expressed their opposition to President Alexander Lukashenko, although they have never mentioned him by name in their lyrics.

's largest crowd was in Kyiv in 2004, when they played in support of the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, with band members expressing their hope that something similar would happen in their own country.

There was no written blacklist, but FM station managers said they received unofficial "recommendations" from the authorities.

In Belarus, however, the group remained on the forbidden list, therefore they seldom held public concerts and played in underground conditions.

After a late-2007 meeting of Belarusian rock-musicians with the deputy head of the Presidential Administration on Ideology Oleg Proleskovsky, the band was removed from the banned list.

[5] The band appeared during one of their concerts at an opposition rally in 2006, which was featured in the documentary, A Lesson of Belarusian During the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests band leader Pete Pawlow performed the song Try čarapachi on the opposition march in front of armed militsia, the song was also performed multiple times by protesters during the marches.

Lavon Volski
N.R.M. performing as Mroja at the Basovišča festival in Poland, 2009
Oleg Demidovich