Saint-Petersburg, 2 April 2017. PenzaNews. The editor in chief of the independent information agency PenzaNews Pavel Polosin takes part in the 4th media forum of regional and local mass media "Truth and Justice", which is held in Saint-Petersburg.

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In the morning, journalists from all regions of the country were greeted by the co-chairman of the APF Headquarters, the State Duma deputy Olga Timofeeva and the head of the executive committee Alexei Anisimov.

After that, there was held a presentation of the priority projects of the front – "Thorough cleaning", "APF road inspection / Map of destroyed roads", "Popular quality assessment", "Equal opportunities for children". There was also a presentation of the centre of monitoring of the city environment improvement.

After that, participants of the forum went to so-called "workshop" grounds, where the work just started.

One of them is dedicated to the Internet media work. The moderator of the discussion on topical issues of the field was the head of the Russian State Duma commission on information policy, information technology and communication, the member of “The Just Russia” party Leonid Levin.

The deputy head of the Federal Supervision Agency for Information Technologies and Communications, the editor-in-chief of the information agency PenzaNews Pavel Polosin was invited as a speaker.

About 150 journalists take part in the work of the thematic platform.

As it was reported earlier, the 4th media forum of independent regional and local mass media "Truth and Justice", which is held in Saint-Petersburg on April 1-3, united over 500 people

including journalists from all regions of the country, bloggers, heads of federal mass media, as well as heads of relevant ministries and departments.

Most of them are prizewinners of the All-Russian contest of journalistic works, which was conducted by the APF Fund "Truth and Justice". The list of prizewinners includes five representatives of the Penza region mass media. Their awarding was held on the first day of the forum.

The final event of the forum will be a plenary meeting featuring participation of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin.