This season has seen record-high competition in the creative contest.
The award ceremony for the winners of the "With Pen and Heart" International Competition for Russian-language Media and Bloggers took place on April 24 in the most hospitable city in the world – Zelenogradsk.
In the seventh season, 442 works from 60 regions of Russia, as well as from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Transnistria, Abkhazia and Georgia were submitted to the organizing committee.
According to the jury, two articles with equal points were recognized as the winners of the season: Tatiana Zykova, a correspondent of the Krasnoyarsk branch of Komsomolskaya Pravda Publishing House, and Daria Khramochkina, a correspondent of TASS News Agency.
Irina Uskova, a special correspondent for Novgorod Regional Television, was announced as the silver prize winner.
The third place went to Komsomolskaya Pravda columnist Vladimir Perekrest.
Anastasia Plyusnina, a journalist for the Tobolsk Time TV channel, was awarded the competition's now-traditional special prize.
And the prize "For the benefit of others" was awarded to Daria Yudkina, editor of the online publication Dobro-Media.
The "Big Heart" cup, officially established this season (for those who are taking their first steps in journalism), was awarded to the student media group of the Moscow State University "MED".
And the prize from the competition's information partner — the Association of Mass Media of the North-West — has found a home in Belarus, thanks to the talent of our colleagues from TRC Gomel, Natalia Valynets and Alexey Chistov.
In addition to the prize winners, the judges felt it necessary to recognize the work of fourteen contestants with honorary diplomas: Olga Sayapina (Kaliningrad), Radovan Jeric (Serbia), Aurika Rusnak (PMR, Transnistria), Daria Redvan and Angelina Kolupaeva (Kemerovo Region), Viktoria Kudaeva (Irkutsk), Irina Umarova (Tajikistan), Alexandra Kleptsova (Murmansk), Alexander Kvasnikov (Republic of Chuvashia), Lyubov Mavrina (Moscow), Zlata Shagarova (Novosibirsk), Timur Osmonov (Kyrgyzstan), Lilia Aparovich (Belarus), and the special project "Flowers of Life" by the "Coast of Hope" (Bereg Nadezhdy) charity foundation (Kaliningrad).