On 17 August 2012, she was convicted of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred for a performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and sentenced to two years imprisonment.

[2] She was released on a suspended sentence by a Moscow appeals judge on 10 October 2012 following an argument from her lawyer that she had been stopped by cathedral guards before she could get her guitar out of its case.

[7] For two years she worked for a defense contractor on a secret project, to develop software for the nuclear attack submarine K-152 Nerpa.

Court sessions were attended by her father, Stanislav Samutsevich,[6] whom she lived with before her arrest,[7] who stated that he felt "proud about how firm and prepared she is to face the punishment rather than betray her beliefs".

[9] In 2010, Samutsevich was among the Voina activists who attempted to release live cockroaches into the Tagansky Courthouse; the extent to which they succeeded in this action is disputed.