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 nation 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.

Regardless of being sentenced to two years in prison for his or her activism, the group continued to talk out against the Kremlin chief, 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 set up a information outlet focused on crime and punishment in Russia, referred to as Mediazona, with one other member of the band.

In April, Russian authorities positioned her below house arrest as they tried to cease those in 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 phone behind as a decoy.

She was then capable of cross into Lithuania after in search of 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 told The New York Times: "I used to be happy that I made it, because it was an unpredictable and big kiss-off to the Russian authorities.

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

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

"Even earlier than, there were questions about how it's united, by what values it's united, and where it's going. However now I do not suppose 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 happening in Russia.