Posted on 03/31/2008 5:53:52 PM PDT by dynachrome
German police and state security officers have launched a wide-scale hunt for a Russian artist and critic of Vladimir Putin's government who disappeared from her Berlin flat 10 days ago.
Anna Mikhalchuk, 52, who has lived in the German capital since November, went for a walk on Good Friday and failed to return.
At the weekend, police divers and sniffer dogs trawled a lake and searched allotments close to the home she shares with her husband, Michail Ryklin, a prize-winning philosopher and author.
"On that afternoon she said goodbye to me and said she wanted to go for a short walk," Ryklin said. He went in search of her two hours later.
"A political or antisemitic crime cannot be ruled out," Ryklin added, saying that he and his wife, who are both Jewish, had been threatened in the past.
Mikhalchuk, an artist and poet who is also known in Russia as Anna Alchuk, made headlines in 2003 after her work appeared in an exhibition critical of the Russian Orthodox church in Moscow's Sakharov museum. The show was stormed by six men who sprayed the works with paint and smashed display cases.
Mikhalchuk, a public critic of Russian president Vladimir Putin, along with a fellow artist and the museum curator, was subsequently charged with inciting religious hatred. The other two were fined and, although Mikhalchuk was cleared, she is said by friends to have suffered from depression ever since
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Sad, hope this has somehow a happy outcome.
Putinicide?
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Sounds a lot like what happens to the critics of the Clintons...
With the KGB running Russia it’s now the most corrupt nation in Europe.
Weird coincidence, huh?
Thanks for the ping.
“They” say there are no coincidences.
Pinging nw_arizona_granny.
Now there is a book to be written, all the people who have died and disappeared, soon after telling the truth about Putin.
Could be a series, before or after all the scientists who have the oddest accidents in the world, esp if they are working on a cure.
Thanks to Lucyt for the ping.
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