Author name: David Ritsher

Pavel Talankin is a teacher from a small mining town in Central Russia. He spent two and a half years documenting how his school was conscripted into Putin’s war propaganda machine for the Oscar-nominated documentary, Mr. Nobody Against Putin. After Russia invaded Ukraine, his school changed almost overnight– teachers ordered to deliver government scripts and […]

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