Lucy Shtein fled Moscow in late March; now she can tell her story after her girlfriend got out the same way
Hours after Vladimir Putin’s forces invaded Ukraine on 24 February, Lucy Shtein, a member of the daring art collective Pussy Riot, knew it was time to get out of Russia.
But Shtein, 25, had been under house arrest for more than a year, with police officers patrolling the street outside her small flat in central Moscow.