DuatDweller on 14/3/2026 at 00:36
If you're pro Putin don't read this it might give you gasses....
From Mr Nobody to Oscar nominee: How one man took on Putin
Pavel Talankin had never been outside Russia before he went into exile in summer 2024, leaving his home in the Ural mountains for his own safety after he quietly stood up to President Putin's war machine.
In less than two years, Pasha, as he's known, transformed from an events coordinator and videographer at a primary school in Karabash, one of the most polluted places on earth, to an Oscar nominee.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2ggjegj5lo)
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The director has already taken selfies with Hollywood's finest including two of this year's best actor contenders, Leonardo Dicaprio and Ethan Hawke.
"They are just normal people like the rest of us," he told me when we met in Los Angeles ahead of Sunday's Academy Awards.
But Pasha is far from normal; an unlikely hero whose film, Mr Nobody Against Putin, made with the Copenhagen-based American director David Borenstein, already won best documentary at the Bafta Film Awards in February.
The self-styled Mr Nobody has become a Mr Somebody in Hollywood.
The pair are hoping an Oscar will be next.
We met on Pasha's 35th birthday. He turned up to our interview with shiny pink balloons - a '3' and a '5' - that he said he had bought himself that morning.
His most pressing Oscar-related concern was about the statuette.
"How much does it weigh?" he asked. "This question interests me a lot, because in all the shops they sell plastic Chinese fakes and they weigh nothing, so I'm curious how much it weighs."
The answer, if you're interested, is 3.86kg, but it's typical of his sardonic humour, everything said with a straight face.
Comedy is also front and centre of the film, despite its serious subject matter.
"Pasha obviously has used humour as a way of coping with what was happening around him," Borenstein told me.
Starker on 14/3/2026 at 10:13
Russian economy may not be as stronk as the propagandists hope:
[video=youtube;JUi7qa1yy8c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUi7qa1yy8c[/video]
DuatDweller on 14/3/2026 at 22:51
We know, the high prices, the scarcity of some food in Russia is telling something is going to break soon.
mikjames on 16/3/2026 at 23:17
No one here is "pro Putin"... Some of us are "pro life".
Not the women murdering babies thing though, they can do that all they want. Since mostly low i.q people are the ones having the most children, I 100% support abortion.
In fact, maybe we can make abortion mandatory for anyone with sub 100 i.q :D
DuatDweller on 17/3/2026 at 00:25
I start wondering how many aliases does mikjames have, seems suspicious that "another" non habitual user posts around here.
mikjames on 17/3/2026 at 15:57
If we're measuring the success of the war on the happiness of the Russian people... I guess they've been losing the war for centuries now.
Starker on 22/3/2026 at 05:54
The joke on the streets is that Moscow is finally becoming part of Russia. Every region has had problems with internet availability, but somehow it's only news now that Muscovites have to deal with it.
Starker on 25/3/2026 at 01:23
The Kremlin leopards seem to have a lot on their plate, lately:
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https://www.dw.com/en/pro-kremlin-blogger-turns-on-putin-sent-to-psychiatric-care/a-76457533)
On March 17, Ilya Remeslo, a blogger, lawyer and former member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, posted a sensational "manifesto" entitled "Five reasons why I stopped supporting Vladimir Putin" on his Telegram channel. He said the war against Ukraine was "failing" and also criticized online censorship and the lack of freedom of speech.
Remeslo went on to argue that the Russian president had been in power for too long and was apparently planning to "remain on the throne for at least 150 years." He also described Putin's press conferences as a "circus" and concluded by saying that he was not a legitimate president: "Putin must resign and be brought to justice as a war criminal and a thief."
The next day, Remeslo posted some videos online to prove that he was still living in Russia. He also said he was prepared to go to jail now so that he could live as a hero later, after Putin's downfall.
The manifesto and videos caused quite a stir and have apparently landed Remeslo in St. Petersburg's Psychiatric Hospital No. 3. It is unclear how this came to be, but all contact with him seems to have been lost and people are wondering what happened.
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While there have been occasional instances of public outcry against the system in Russia since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Remeslo was hitherto the absolute opposite of a critic. He was one of the best-known "Z-bloggers," a term used to describe patriots who support the war in Ukraine and campaign against dissent.
Remeslo became known to the Russian public through his crusade against the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, for whose arrest he was largely responsible and against whom he testified in courtrooms across Russia. Navalny died in prison in early 2024 while serving a lengthy sentence on charges of extremism, among others.
In an interview conducted before he was admitted to the psychiatric hospital, Remeslo claimed he had acted of his own free will, acknowledging that his seemingly sudden change of sides might appear contradictory. He attributed the change to personal evolution and a new "mission" in life.
Remeslo said his previous campaigns against the Russian opposition were no longer in keeping with his current views. He explained that these had begun to change after the Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin had dared to rise up against the Kremlin and failed in 2023. Remeslo said he was aware of the risks, but insisted he would not flee to another country. He added that he hoped there would be political change this year.
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The problem for Putin, though, is clearly not one of those Z-patriot influencers suddenly flipping, but that the war is creating more and more people with nothing to lose and there are more and more people returning from the war who are not happy with the government. And it's hardly the first time in Russian history that savvy operators have exploited the discontent of the people for their political gains.
