The Pussy Riot leader's movie escape: she manages to escape from Russia disguised as a 'rider'

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She abandoned her cell phone to avoid being tracked, put on a green food delivery suit and achieved what she set out to do: escape from an increasingly repressive Russia with opposition to the policies of its president, Vladimir Putin.

, known as

, leader of

, has managed to leave her country after two failed attempts.

The escape of the visible head of the musical group that most irritates

has had all the elements of a spy movie.

She herself has recounted her deed to the

, in an interview granted from

, the capital of

.

Exactly 10 years after the

in the

cathedral , which brought her to international fame and to living permanently persecuted,

listened from her cell to a fiery speech by

that would lead, three days later, to the

.

It was a before and after in her life, she had promised to stay in Russia, no matter what, but that anticipated a future that was too dark.

A month ago, someone hung a sign on the door of the apartment he shares with his girlfriend,

, also a member of

, which read:

.

She managed to leave the country, also disguised as a delivery girl, but

failed to cross the border between

and

.

An EU document

Deprived of her Russian passport while

after posting a plea for the release of political prisoners on Instagram, she was on

's most wanted list .

Belarusian border guards held her at the border and later returned her to

.

She tried again, without success.

But the third time she was the charm.

An Icelandic friend convinced a European country (which remains secret to avoid a diplomatic crisis) to issue a document allowing

to travel , a type of visa that guaranteed her status similar to that of an

citizen .

He smuggled

the document into

Once in her hands, the

leader boarded a bus to

.

"It has been very magical," he admits to the American newspaper,

. "

The activist has not spared criticism of

, of whom she says that the West has a wrong vision: "From here it looks like a great demon, but it is very disorganized when you see it from the inside," she says,

.

The members of

have been meeting in Vilnius to prepare their

, which will start on May 12 in

and will aim to raise funds to help

.

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