Russian authorities have reportedly blocked The Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina from travelling to Scotland, after she was scheduled to promote her latest book.
In a tweet from Moscow’s Domodedovo airport yesterday, she claimed that “the guys from the FSB border service told me that I am barred from leaving the country.”
She is an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. Tickets for the show, which is scheduled to run from 10-19 August, are still available on the Fringe site, which describes it as merging “punk, electronica, theatre, documentary footage and protest.”
Alyokhina and bandmate Nadezhda Tolokonnikova spent approximately two years in prison after being arrested in 2012 and convicted of of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” for their “punk prayer” against Vladimir Putin at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral.
Even earlier this month, she protested in front of Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service, unfurling a banner that likened it to the Soviet Gulag.
The reason of latest clash between Pussy Riot and the Russian authorities follows last month’s protest at the World Cup final.
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