Media accreditation is open for the award ceremonies of the 7th season of the International Award "My Affectionate and Helpful Animal" and International Contest for Russian-speaking Media "With Pen and Heart" .
Applications for accreditation are accepted until 18.00 on April 22, 2026. Contact phone 8-952-056-19-99; e-mail:
The journalists will be honored at the Green Cat eco-site (Zelenogradsk, village Sosnovka, Kaliningradskaya str., 4a).
The date of the event is April 24, 2026, starting at 17.00.
The award ceremony for the award winners, our younger brothers and animal rights activists, will take place at the Green Cat eco-site (Zelenogradsk, village Sosnovka, Kaliningradskaya str., 4a). The date is April 25th, 2026, starting at 13:00.
This year, we invite almost all season seven heroes, including furry and four-legged ones, to Zelenogradsk to receive well-deserved awards from the world's kindest prize. They will be honored by guests famous in Russia and abroad. We promise: our events will be full of interesting, exclusive, and very heartfelt moments.
In the seventh season, 68 candidates from 38 regions of our country, as well as from Portugal, Great Britain and Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, China, Thailand, Transnistria, Tanzania and Switzerland applied for the 2025 Award in two nominations.
In the "Our Brothers" nomination, 20 dogs competed against 5 cats, a giant marsupial rat and a pony.
“With Pen and Heart” competition received 442 submissions from 286 journalists and bloggers from 60 regions of Russia and their colleagues from eleven foreign countries—Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Transnistria, Abkhazia, and Georgia.
The award ceremony for the laureates of the project, which has no analogues in the world, will be held for the seventh time this year.