PRAIA DA LUZ, Portugal -- The mother of a 4-year-girl who disappeared in Portugal marked the 14th day of the search for her daughter by attending a church service Thursday, and police released a local Russian computer expert questioned in connection with the case.

Madeleine McCann vanished after her parents left her and her 2-year-old twin brother and sister alone in their room while they went to a tapas bar inside their hotel complex in southern Portugal's Algarve region, a popular European tourist destination.

Gerry and Kate McCann, the parents of missing girl Madeleine McCann, walk with their twins Amelie and Sean, right, in Praia da Luz, southern Portugal, Thursday, May 17 2007. The British 4-year-old Madeleine vanished May 3 from the resort apartment where she was on vacation with her family and the police believe she was abducted. (AP Photo/Armando Franca) (Armando Franca - AP)

The mother, Kate McCann, went to a beach-side church with friends shortly after dropping off her two other children at a hotel kindergarten with her husband, Gerry, who was not at the service.

Police said they questioned a Russian who is believed to have had business dealings with their only formal suspect in the case, 33-year-old Robert Murat, a British man who lives close to the McCanns' hotel.

The Russian, who has lived in the resort town Praia da Luz for several years, was taken to a local police station by plainclothes detectives late Wednesday. They also took computer equipment from his apartment.

Inspector Olegario de Sousa told Portugal's news agency Lusa the man was released early Thursday after providing a witness statement.

Police have placed Murat under formal investigation, although they released him after questioning earlier this week because they did not have enough evidence to charge him.

Murat has denied any involvement in Madeleine's disappearance. However, he is barred from giving a detailed public rebuttal by Portugal's secrecy laws, which forbid the release of information pertaining to an ongoing police investigation.

A man who said he was a friend of Murat's distributed leaflets Thursday among reporters gathered outside the suspect's house. The leaflets explained the legal constraints on Murat.

The friend, Tuck Price, said Murat was upset that media have distributed his name and photograph.

"He's upset ... he's devastated by this," Price told reporters. "He just wants to switch the focus to the little girl."