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 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 their activism, the group continued to talk out in opposition to 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 arrange a information outlet centered on crime and punishment in Russia, known as Mediazona, with another member of the band.

In April, Russian authorities positioned her beneath home arrest as they tried to stop those 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 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 paperwork.

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

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

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

"Even before, there were questions about how it is united, by what values it is united, and the place 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 jail camp and protests taking place in Russia.