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 towards 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 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 set up a news outlet focused on crime and punishment in Russia, referred to as Mediazona, with another member of the band.

In April, Russian authorities placed her beneath house 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 chief 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 searching for the help of an artist from Iceland, who secured her travel documents.

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Comparing her story to a "spy novel", Ms Alyokhina instructed The New York Times: "I was happy 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 carried out."

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

"Even before, there were questions on how it's united, by what values it's united, and where it is going. However now I do not suppose that is a query anymore."

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