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 country 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 in opposition to the Russian president inside Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral in 2012.

Despite being sentenced to 2 years in prison for his or her activism, the group continued to talk out against the Kremlin leader, with Ms Alyokhina remaining decided to battle Mr Putin's system.

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

In April, Russian authorities positioned her underneath home arrest as they tried to stop these in the country who opposed their invasion of Ukraine.

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

Nevertheless, 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 in a position to cross into Lithuania after in search of 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 informed The New York Instances: "I used to be completely happy that I made it, because it was an unpredictable and large kiss-off to the Russian authorities.

"I nonetheless don't perceive completely what I've carried out."

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Ms Alyokhina added: "I do not think Russia has a right to exist anymore.

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

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