Pavel Talankin, the Russian videographer who secretly filmed the Oscar-winning documentary Mr Nobody Against Putin, has been designated as a ‌foreign agent by the country. Pavel Talankin previously worked as a videographer at a secondary school in Karabash, a struggling industrial town in Russia’s Ural Mountains. After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, President Vladimir Putin outlawed all public criticism of the national military. At the same time, Russian authorities ordered schools to replace regular lessons with patriotic displays, military drills, and a state-written curriculum designed to justify the invasion to students. As these changes took hold, 34-year-old Talankin decided to document what was happening inside his school. He secretly filmed state propaganda and smuggled the footage out of the country. The videographer later used the footage to make the documentary Mr Nobody Against Putin, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature earlier this month.…