Agents would not allow Pavel Talankin to carry statuette for Mr Nobody Against Putin on to flight from New York

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The Oscar statuette belonging to Pavel Talankin, star and co-director of the Academy award-winning documentary Mr Nobody Against Putin, that went missing after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials refused to let him carry it with him on his flight in New York has been found, according to the airline involved.

Talankin said he lost his Oscar after TSA agents at New York’s John F Kennedy airport refused to let him bring it on a Lufthansa flight to Germany, claiming it could be used as a weapon.