Pussy Riot band member Maria Alyokhina escapes Russia dressed as food courier after criticising Putin | World Information

Political activist and member of the Russian band Pussy Riot has reportedly fled the nation disguised as a food courier after criticising Vladimir Putin.

Maria Alyokhina and her fellow band members first got here to the eye of the Russian authorities after staging a protest towards the Russian president inside Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral in 2012.

Despite being sentenced to two years in prison for their activism, the group continued to talk out against the Kremlin leader, with Ms Alyokhina remaining determined to fight Mr Putin's system.

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After being launched from prison, she continued her activism and arrange a news outlet focused on crime and punishment in Russia, referred to as Mediazona, with another member of the band.

In April, Russian authorities positioned her beneath home arrest as they tried to stop these in the nation who opposed their invasion of Ukraine.

The 33-year-old was then ordered to spend 21 days in a penal colony.

Nonetheless, the band chief managed to evade the Moscow police by disguising herself as a food courier and leaving her telephone behind as a decoy.

She was then capable of cross into Lithuania after seeking the help of an artist from Iceland, who secured her journey documents.

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Evaluating her story to a "spy novel", Ms Alyokhina informed The New York Instances: "I used to be happy that I made it, as a result of it was an unpredictable and massive kiss-off to the Russian authorities.

"I nonetheless don't perceive utterly what I've performed."

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Ms Alyokhina added: "I do not assume Russia has a right to exist anymore.

"Even earlier than, there were questions about how it's united, by what values it's united, and the place it is going. But now I do not think that is a query anymore."

In 2019, fellow bandmate Nadya Tolokonikova spoke to Sky Information about her time in a prison camp and protests going down in Russia.