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 country disguised as a meals 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.

Despite being sentenced to 2 years in prison for their activism, the group continued to speak out in opposition to the Kremlin leader, with Ms Alyokhina remaining decided to struggle Mr Putin's system.

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After being released from prison, she continued her activism and arrange a news outlet targeted on crime and punishment in Russia, known as Mediazona, with one other member of the band.

In April, Russian authorities positioned her underneath 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 leader managed to evade the Moscow police by disguising herself as a food courier and leaving her phone behind as a decoy.

She was then capable of cross into Lithuania after in search of the help of an artist from Iceland, who secured her travel paperwork.

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

"I still don't understand utterly what I've achieved."

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

"Even earlier than, there have been questions about how it is united, by what values it is united, and where it's going. However now I don't suppose that is a query anymore."

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