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

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 attention of the Russian authorities after staging a protest towards the Russian president inside Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral in 2012.

Regardless of being sentenced to 2 years in jail for his or her activism, the group continued to speak out against the Kremlin chief, with Ms Alyokhina remaining decided to struggle Mr Putin's system.

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After being launched from prison, she continued her activism and arrange a news outlet centered on crime and punishment in Russia, called Mediazona, with one other member of the band.

In April, Russian authorities placed her beneath house 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.

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

She was then in a position to cross into Lithuania after looking for the assistance of an artist from Iceland, who secured her journey paperwork.

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Comparing her story to a "spy novel", Ms Alyokhina informed The New York Occasions: "I was completely happy that I made it, as a result of it was an unpredictable and big kiss-off to the Russian authorities.

"I nonetheless do not understand utterly what I've performed."

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

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