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 meals 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.

Regardless of being sentenced to two years in jail for his or her activism, the group continued to talk out towards the Kremlin leader, with Ms Alyokhina remaining determined to combat Mr Putin's system.

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

In April, Russian authorities placed her beneath home arrest as they tried to stop 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.

However, the band chief managed to evade the Moscow police by disguising herself as a meals courier and leaving her telephone 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 documents.

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Evaluating her story to a "spy novel", Ms Alyokhina instructed The New York Times: "I used to be pleased that I made it, because it was an unpredictable and large kiss-off to the Russian authorities.

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

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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 is united, and the place it's going. However now I do not think that may be a query anymore."

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