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 country disguised as a meals 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 against the Russian president inside Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral in 2012.

Despite being sentenced to 2 years in jail for their activism, the group continued to talk out in opposition to the Kremlin chief, with Ms Alyokhina remaining determined to struggle Mr Putin's system.

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After being launched from prison, she continued her activism and set up a news outlet targeted on crime and punishment in Russia, known as Mediazona, with another member of the band.

In April, Russian authorities positioned her beneath home arrest as they tried to stop those within the country who opposed their invasion of Ukraine.

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

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

She was then capable of cross into Lithuania after in search of the assistance of an artist from Iceland, who secured her travel documents.

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Evaluating her story to a "spy novel", Ms Alyokhina told The New York Occasions: "I used to be pleased that I made it, because it was an unpredictable and big kiss-off to the Russian authorities.

"I nonetheless do not perceive completely what I've carried out."

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Ms Alyokhina added: "I don't think Russia has a proper to exist anymore.

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

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