Maria Alyokhina, a member of the punk band Pussy Riot, which has long protested against the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin and, even while under strict house arrest, openly criticized the war in Ukraine, escaped from detention. Moreover, she left Russia in a green jacket of a food delivery courier, according to CNN..
Alyokhina told The New York Times that although she once refused to leave the country, despite numerous arrests, she still escaped after the Russian authorities said they would send her to a colony with criminals.. During her week-long journey, Maria made her way from Russia to Belarus, and from there to Lithuania.
“I don’t think Russia has the right to exist,” she told the NYT correspondent, already in Lithuania..
Alyokhina has been arrested several times over the past decade for her performances as part of Pussy Riot.
The group became known internationally in 2012, when they performed the Russian anthem with anti-Putin text in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.. Women wearing ski masks that obscured their faces shouted: "
Alyokhina and two other kopeck piece from the group were found guilty of " Since her release, since last summer alone, Maria has been arrested six times for being active..
Another Pussy Riot member, Nadezhda Tolokonikova, who was also imprisoned for nearly two years, has been added? to the list of Russian "
Alyokhina told The Times that she hopes to return to Russia, but now she is in Iceland, where she organizes pro-Ukrainian events, including with Bjork.
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In October 2017, Pussy Riot members hung a banner in the lobby of the Trump Tower skyscraper in New York demanding the release of Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, who was convicted in Russia on trumped-up charges..
Recall that at the end of February 2012, five girls from the Pussy Riot group staged a " The video of the performance was posted online.. In August 2012, the court sentenced three of them to two years in a general regime colony for hooliganism, but all of them were released early..