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 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 prison for his or her activism, the group continued to talk out in opposition to the Kremlin chief, with Ms Alyokhina remaining decided to combat Mr Putin's system.

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

In April, Russian authorities placed her under house arrest as they tried to cease 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.

Nevertheless, 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 seeking the assistance of an artist from Iceland, who secured her travel documents.

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

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

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

"Even before, there were questions on how it is united, by what values it's united, and where it is going. However now I don't assume that is a question anymore."

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