Pussy Riot band member Maria Alyokhina escapes Russia dressed as meals 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 came to the eye 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 two years in jail for their activism, the group continued to talk out against the Kremlin chief, with Ms Alyokhina remaining determined to battle 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 another member of the band.

In April, Russian authorities placed her beneath home arrest as they tried to cease these within the country who opposed their invasion of Ukraine.

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

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

She was then able to cross into Lithuania after searching for the help 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 glad 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 fully what I've carried out."

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

"Even before, there have been questions about how it's united, by what values it's united, and where it's going. However now I do not assume that could be a query anymore."

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