Pussy Riot band member Maria Alyokhina escapes Russia dressed as food courier after criticising Putin | World News

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 against the Russian president inside Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral in 2012.

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

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

In April, Russian authorities positioned her below house arrest as they tried to cease 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 leader managed to evade the Moscow police by disguising herself as a food courier and leaving her cellphone behind as a decoy.

She was then in a position to cross into Lithuania after looking for the help of an artist from Iceland, who secured her journey paperwork.

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

"I still don't understand fully what I've done."

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Ms Alyokhina added: "I do not think 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 where it's going. However now I do not assume that could be a question anymore."

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