Pussy Riot on being smuggled out of Russia

A member of the Russian protest band Pussy Riot was so determined to make it to the Edinburgh Fringe - she smuggled herself out of the country when the authorities refused to let her out. (Click to subscribe for more Channel 4 News videos. Maria Alyokhina managed to drive a thousand km via the less secure Belarusian border - until she reached Lithuania, where she could finally board a flight to the UK. She’s now at the festival to perform in a show based on her book, Riot Days - and our Scotland correspondent Ciaran Jenkins went to meet her.
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