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Russian filmmaker Pasha Talankin, the co-director of Academy Award-winning documentary "Mr. Nobody Against Putin", has lost his Oscar statuette after security officials at New York airport refused to let him board a flight with it. Talankin, who was also the protagonist of "Mr. Nobody Against Putin", which won the Best Feature Documentary at this year's Academy Awards, said at a security checkpoint at JFK Airport on Wednesday, an official stopped him from carrying on board the statuette, which weighs approximately 3.8 kg. He added that he had flown more than a dozen times with the Oscar since winning it in March without any incident. "It's completely baffling how they consider an Oscar a weapon... (I) flew with it in the cabin, and there never was any kind of problem," Talankin told the outlet from Frankfurt, Germany, where he arrived Thursday morning on a Lufthansa flight. A Lufthansa airline agent at the checkpoint offered to escort the filmmaker to the gate and hold the statuett
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