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Anna Mikhalchuk. (AP) Last update - 12:22 29/03/2008 Jewish detractor of Putin disappears from Berlin home By Assaf Uni, Haaretz Correspondent Tags: anti-Semitism, Vladimir Putin  German police are seeking a Russian Jewish artist who disappeared from her Berlin home last week. Anna Mikhalchuk, 52, has been a fierce critic of Putin's regime and the Russian Orthodox Church. Her husband said that in Russia she had been subject to intense harassment of an anti-Semitic nature. Advertisement In 2003 she stood trial for her part in organizing the art exhibition "Careful, Religion," which lambasted the prominent standing of the church in Russia. It was vandalized by extreme right-wing activists, and Mikhalchuk, along with two co-organizers of the exhibition, was indicted for sedition. She was eventually acquitted. Mikhalchuk and her husband, Mikhail Riklin, moved to Berlin when he was offered professorship at the city's Humboldt University. He notified the authorities of his wife's disappearance on Friday last week. "She told me that afternoon that she was going for a short walk," he said. Together with a number of colleagues, Riklin published an open letter urging the German police to consider political grounds for her disappearance. However, the daily newspaper Die Welt quoted Mikhalchuk's associates who said she had been suffering from depression recently. Related articles: Moscow back in the shadows Russian-born businessman: I met poisoned ex-spy Litvinenko in Israel In Russia's third largest city, the blood libel is resurfacing Bookmark to del.icio.us   Bread will abound J'lem court allows pizzerias, bakeries to sell leavened products during Passover. The looking glass A T.A. film festival tackles Israel's hardest issues from war to polygamy.   1.   She was depressed 18:00  |  Psychologist 28/03/08   2.   Da she vas depressed 19:42  |  Ivan 28/03/08   3.   Follow her trail with a Geiger Counter... 20:15  |  Stephen. 28/03/08   4.   The slime-ball Putin has his hand in this lot! 21:01  |  Forever yours. 28/03/08   5.   Jewish detractor of Putin disappears from Berlin home 21:02  |  martin list, m.d. 28/03/08   6.   What a Waste! 23:45  |  Simeon ben Jacob 28/03/08   7.   Putin`s Jewish critics 00:41  |  Oleg 29/03/08   8.   fallow the money of the jewish oligarcs who robbed russia 01:11  |  billy jack 29/03/08   9.   Oleg, in sentence one 07:58  |  Jeff 29/03/08   10.   Yeah, Putin killed her ... and ate her 11:27  |  Slava 29/03/08   11.   Slava the apologist, two words: Anna Politkovskaya 15:45  |  David Teich 29/03/08   12.   One has to be sick to hate Mother-Russia 15:57  |  Boris 29/03/08   13.   Mikhalchuk, who?? 16:46  |  European 29/03/08   14.   Putin 19:33  |  Kharpov 29/03/08   15.   Billy Goat 8 19:43  |  Oligarch 29/03/08   16.   To Martin List -- MD (!) 23:41  |  Miransky 29/03/08   17.   Oleg 09:31  |  sweis Melbourne 30/03/08   18.   RE sweis Melbourne 10:08  |  Chris 30/03/08   19.   RE sweis & chris 15:25  |  Advocate4Liberty 30/03/08   20.   Chris 05:43  |  sweis Melbourne 31/03/08   21.   Chris 05:43  |  sweis Melbourne 31/03/08   22.   How about a some reality here? 11:58  |  Isaak 01/04/08   23.   wheres the witch durson now??? 03:28  |  hal tripp 04/04/08

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