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 jail for their activism, the group continued to speak out in opposition to the Kremlin chief, with Ms Alyokhina remaining decided to combat Mr Putin's system.

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After being released from jail, she continued her activism and arrange 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 beneath home arrest as they tried to stop 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.

Nevertheless, the band chief managed to evade the Moscow police by disguising herself as a food courier and leaving her cellphone behind as a decoy.

She was then able to cross into Lithuania after looking for the help of an artist from Iceland, who secured her travel paperwork.

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Evaluating her story to a "spy novel", Ms Alyokhina informed The New York Occasions: "I was glad that I made it, because it was an unpredictable and big kiss-off to the Russian authorities.

"I still do not perceive utterly what I've completed."

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

"Even earlier than, there have been questions about how it's united, by what values it is united, and the place it is going. But now I do not think that may be a question anymore."

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