Penza, 28 November 2014. PenzaNews. Vasily Bochkarev, governor of the Penza region took the third place in the rating of regional heads’ blogging activity, compiled by “National monitoring service” in October 2014.

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According to the results presented, the top of the list belongs to Ramzan Kadyrov, head of Chechnya, who posted 316 messages. The governor of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, who made 308 posts, is the second. The blogs of Vasily Bochkarev have had 186 posts in October.

Employees of the monitoring service also analyzed the activity of the regional heads on different platforms.

For example, according to the monitoring results, Vasily Bochkarev showed the second performance in the country on Twitter with 185 tweets, being left behind only by Igor Koshin with 291 posts, but going ahead of Sergei Sobyanin, Moscow mayor with 159 tweets.

“Posts of Igor Koshin, who has 343 subscribers, are sort of work reports, there is little reasoning or estimates among them, but the head's participation in various activities is well-reflected. The content of Vasily Bochkarev’s messages (481 readers) and Sergei Sobyanin’s posts (8,154 readers) are of the similar nature to those of Igor Koshin,” the rating explanatory note states.

According to the study of Russian governors’ LiveJournal, Instagram, Facebook and autonomous blogs Vasily Bochkarev did not get into the top five active regional heads in any of these groups.

However, , the governor of the Penza region entered the rating’s top 10 in terms of quoting, occupying the seventh place.

As PenzaNews agency reported earlier, in late November Vasily Bochkarev actually admitted that he is not always managing his Twitter due to his increased work load, and therefore has to delegate this activity to his authorized representatives.