Penza, 4 October 2012. PenzaNews. The governor of the Penza region Vasily Bochkarev and the famous Russian journalist Alexander Gordon welcomed the participants of the second Humanitarian Forum “Project Province,” dedicated to the study of the problems of culture, architecture, teaching and media, which opened in Penza on Thursday, October 4.

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“An important part of the event is to enable communication between the members. Today we see here genuinely concerned people who have come to discuss various issues. And it will be alright to go beyond the stated program,” Vasily Bochkarev noted.

TV journalist Alexander Gordon pointed that many of the issues discussed at the first forum held in Penza in the last year were fulfilled.

“Around 70% of what we talked about was done or is in progress. That is the anniversary of M.Lermontov, and a business incubator, and the youth ground. All recommendations were taken into account. And this is important in such forums,” he stressed.

According to Alexander Gordon, Humanitarian Forum can be converted into a permanent platform of horizontal communication between the regions.

“Unfortunately, Russia is arranged in such a way that not only all the trains and planes pass through Moscow, but all the information about what is happening in the country follows this route as well. Creation of horizontal connections will show what is happening in the regions without filters,” he explained.