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Pavel Talankin is a former Russian school event coordinator and videographer at School No. 1 in Karabash, a town in Russia's Chelyabinsk region. He filmed "patriotic" lessons and school events for official reports submitted to the Russian ministry of education. After Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Talankin began documenting the growing propaganda and militarization within the Russian school system. Together with colleagues from various countries, he created the Danish-Czech documentary project Mr. Nobody Against Putin. The film was shot over two years using secretly recorded footage. Mr. Nobody Against Putin shows how Russian schoolchildren are forced to march, attend lectures about "denazification," and participate in militaristic ceremonies - documenting the arrival of Wagner Group mercenaries, patriotic events, and even fragments of funerals. The project sparked a strong reaction in Russian Karabash: pro-government media accused Talankin of "anti-Russian propaganda" and "treason," his mother was fired, and security forces showed up at local schools. Pavel Talankin has turned Russia’s school propaganda into a clinical study of modern tools of manipulation.