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 eye 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 2 years in prison for their activism, the group continued to talk out against the Kremlin leader, with Ms Alyokhina remaining determined to battle Mr Putin's system.

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After being released from prison, she continued her activism and set up a news 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 those 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 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 able to cross into Lithuania after seeking the assistance 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 Instances: "I was pleased 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 finished."

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

"Even earlier than, there were questions about how it's united, by what values it's united, and the place it is going. However now I don't think that could 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.