Michail Ryklin (Михаил Рыклин) is a Russian author of books and essays, and an internationalist university professor of Philosophy .
His mother, Stalina, was the daughter of Sergei Tschaplin, a young Soviet intelligence officer who had fallen foul of the leader and died, probably during 1942, in the camps.
[6] In 1987, Ryklin accepted a visiting lectureship at the University of Tartu in Estonia, which at that time was part of the Soviet Union.
[6] A few years later, in 1990, a visit to Moscow by the charismatic Paris-based deconstructist (philosopher) Jacques Derrida persuaded him to acknowledge to himself that there was a wider world of philosophy beyond the boundaries of the Soviet Union.
[10] Those whom he met in Paris included Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jean Baudrillard and Paul Virilio.
[5] That was followed by a period of several years based primarily in the U.S.[6] During 1992/93, he was a visiting professor and Fellow of the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University in Upstate New York.
[8] During the middle part of the decade,bthe couple abandoned their life in America and returned home to Moscow.
[13] In 1995, he also became a regular correspondent-contributor for the West Berlin-based German edition of the quarterly cultural magazine "Lettre International", founded in 1988 and, since then, under the directorship of Frank Berberich, (who also served as editor-in-chief until 2003).
[14] In 1997, Ryklin accepted a senior research fellowship in Philosophical Anthropology at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
On 12 February 2003, the Russian parliament passed a motion calling on the public prosecutor to take action against the exhibition organisers on a charge of "inciting religious hatred".
The principal defendant was the lead organiser of the exhibition, the director of the Sakharov Center Yuri Samodurov.
There were never any criminal charges brought against the intruders and Samodurov was persuaded at an early stage to abandon preparations for a civil case in respect of the destruction and damage involving the art works.
This had the advantage, from the point of view of the prosecuting authorities, that no lawyer representing the Sakharov Center was able to attend the court in respect of the legal proceedings that were pursued.
[8][18] "Mit dem Recht des Stärkeren: Die russische Kultur in Zeiten der gelenkten Demokratie" (loosely, "With the law of the strongest: Russian culture in times of Guided democracy"), Ryklin's careful but anguished chronicle of these events, was published in German translation in 2006, winning for the author the 2007 Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding.
!Since she had mother tongue Russian and was also fluent in English, she would, from the outset, have been able to make herself understood even with minimal German, since she would have encountered very few people in the area who had not studied either Russian at school in East Berlin / East Germany or English at school in West Berlin / West Germany.
Further investigation of the body disclosed that the blood contained traces of sleeping pills at twenty times the "normal" concentration.
He urged them to take more seriously the possibility that there might be a political aspect to Anna's disappearance and the subsequent discovery of her dead body: "Through her critical engagement with Russian society, and because of her Jewish provenance, Mrs Mikhalchuk was exposed to daily repression and threats of violence.