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

Political activist and member of the Russian band Pussy Riot has reportedly fled the country 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 in opposition to the Russian president inside Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral in 2012.

Despite being sentenced to 2 years in jail for his or her 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 jail, she continued her activism and arrange a information outlet centered on crime and punishment in Russia, referred to as Mediazona, with another member of the band.

In April, Russian authorities placed her under 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 chief managed to evade the Moscow police by disguising herself as a meals courier and leaving her cellphone behind as a decoy.

She was then capable of cross into Lithuania after looking for the assistance of an artist from Iceland, who secured her travel paperwork.

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

"I nonetheless don't understand completely what I've executed."

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

"Even earlier than, there were questions on how it is united, by what values it is united, and where it's going. But now I do not suppose 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.