Penza, 6 June 2013. PenzaNews. “Channel One” plans to make coverage of how the deputy chairman of the regional sports committee Vladimir Zhuchkov is fighting excess weight, trying to execute the order of governor Vasily Bochkarev. This was announced by the deputy head of the regional sports committee in his blog “Duel with Excess Weight” on Thursday, June 6.

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According to Vladimir Zhuchkov, a film crew arrives in Penza on Wednesday, June 19.

“There is no way back. So I am looking for the like-minded people,” he wrote.

As news agency PenzaNews reported earlier, during the operational meeting in the government of the Penza region on Monday, June 3, governor Vasily Bochkarev reprimanded a number of ministers and deputies for their shape. In particular, he ordered the Minister of Health Vladimir Stryuchkov to lose 16 kg within six months, and the deputy chairman of the sports committee Vladimir Zhuchkov to get rid of extra-kilos in two months.

The initiative of Penza governor about losing weight received public response the very same day. Relevant publications appeared in dozens of major national media, including news agency ITAR-TASS, “Interfax,” “Rossiyskaya Gazeta,” “Kommersant,” “Vedomosti,” “Izvestia,” “Argumenty i Fakty,” “Moskovsky Komsomolets,” RBC Daily , The Russian Times, BBC Russian, NTV and many others.

On Tuesday, June 4, Vladimir Zhuchkov started a blog “Duel with Excess Weight,” in which he called the governor’s order “a good luck” and promised to inform the readers about the process of the weight loss.

After two days of training the deputy chairman of the sports committee noted that obvious results had not been achieved yet, after the first training the scales showed 97,1 kg, and the next day — 97,4 kg.