The documentary about Vladimir V. Putin’s wartime indoctrination of Russian schoolchildren won an Oscar at Sunday’s Academy ...

Mr. Nobody Against Putin' wins 2026 Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, earning awards for director David Borenstein and co-director Pavel Talankin.

It was a fateful time to embark on a documentary about journalists dedicated to independent reporting in Putin’s Russia; within a few months of Loktev’s arrival, Putin launched his full-scale invasion ...

The samizdat spirit from the days of the Soviet Union, which kept dissident voices in underground circulation, carries on today as material critical of Vladimir Putin's contemporary dictatorship ...

Pavel Talankin once filmed patriotic lessons at a small-town Russian school. Now he’s heading to the Oscars as the co-director of a powerful documentary exposing propaganda and indoctrination in ...

Last month, seemingly out of nowhere, Julia Loktev's documentary "My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow" became a frontrunner in the Oscar race for best documentary feature. The film, ...