Penza, 10 July 2012. PenzaNews. The governor of the Penza region Vasily Bochkarev took the 26th place in information openness rating of heads of the regions, made by “National Service of Monitoring” together with “Institute of Independent Political Researches” in June, 2012.

As it was reported earlier, in May he took the 17th place.

Following the results of June, governor of Primorsky Krai Vladimir Miklushevsky, head of the Russian Republic of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov and governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh got the three top positions of information openness ranking.

The governor of the Astrakhan region Alexander Zhilkin (Southern Federal District), the head of the Ivanovo region Mikhail Men (Central Federal District), the head of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug Natalia Komarova (Urals Federal District), the governor of the Vologda region Oleg Kuvshinnikov (Northwestern Federal District) and the head of Tuva Sholban Kara-ool (Siberian Federal District) became leaders in the federal districts.

As the head of “Institute of Independent Political Researches” Alexander Ulitin told news agency “PenzaNews,” in June rankings we should pay attention to the media activities of the governors, who would go through the procedure of the election in October. They are the heads of the Amur, Belgorod, Bryansk and Novgorod regions.

In turn, the head of “National Service of Monitoring” Artem Bulatov said that the individual weekly ratings of media transparency of all the candidates would be issued during the forthcoming election of heads of federal districts.