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 meals 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 in opposition to the Russian president inside Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral in 2012.

Regardless of being sentenced to 2 years in jail for their activism, the group continued to speak out against the Kremlin chief, with Ms Alyokhina remaining determined to fight 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, referred to as Mediazona, with one other member of the band.

In April, Russian authorities placed her beneath home arrest as they tried to stop these within the country who opposed their invasion of Ukraine.

The 33-year-old was then ordered to spend 21 days in a penal colony.

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

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

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Comparing her story to a "spy novel", Ms Alyokhina advised The New York Instances: "I was completely happy that I made it, because it was an unpredictable and massive kiss-off to the Russian authorities.

"I nonetheless don't perceive fully what I've finished."

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

"Even earlier than, there were questions on how it's united, by what values it's united, and where it's going. But now I don't assume that could be a query anymore."

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