Like a real spy: Pussy Riot member fled Russia
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Maria Alekhina, member of the punk band Pussy Riot, told The New York Times (NYT) how she fled Russia dressed as a delivery service worker.
According to the newspaper, Alyokhina decided to leave the territory of the Russian Federation after the Presnensky Court of Moscow decided on April 21 to replace her sentence with restriction of liberty for a real term.
The girl said that she had to change clothes dressed as a Delivery Club courier to hide from the police. After that, a friend took her to the border of Belarus and Lithuania. It is noted that Alekhina's passport was taken away and she had a Lithuanian visa and a Russian internal passport with her. She managed to cross the border only a week later.
The Pussy Riot member had problems with the Belarusian border guards and managed to cross the border only on the third attempt, not without the help of friends outside the country.
“I was happy I did it because it was unpredictable and big” "fuck off". I still don’t fully understand what I did,” the activist said in an interview with NYT.
“It sounds like a spy novel." Maria Alyokhina, leader of the band Pussy Riot, decided it was time to leave Russia after more than a decade of activism — at least temporarily. She and her girlfriend disguised themselves as food couriers to evade the police. https://t.co/FCT7dNyhf0 pic.twitter.com/cAJdzyjfEj
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 10, 2022
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