Pussy Riot band member Maria Alyokhina escapes Russia dressed as food 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 came to the eye of the Russian authorities after staging a protest towards the Russian president inside Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral in 2012.

Despite 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 determined to struggle Mr Putin's system.

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

In April, Russian authorities placed 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.

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

She was then in a position to cross into Lithuania after looking for 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 Occasions: "I used to be glad that I made it, as a result of it was an unpredictable and large kiss-off to the Russian authorities.

"I nonetheless don't understand completely what I've done."

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

"Even earlier than, there were questions on how it's united, by what values it is united, and the place it is going. But now I don't suppose 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 going down in Russia.