Within the framework of the Festival of Russian Press, celebrated all over Russia, the head of the Tuvan Parliament Sholban Kara-ool received the most prominent Tuvan journalists and greeted them on behalf of the Tuvan deputies. The vice-prime-minister Aldyn-kys Kongar supervising mass-media work greeted the journalists on behalf of the Tuvan government. She spoke of the plans to open up a journalistic faculty in the Tuvan State University. In the House of Press the winners of the annual press contest "Golden pen" were given the awards. Among the best ones are Inna Printseva ("Tuvinskaya Pravda"-"Tuvan Truth" news-paper), Lidia Irgit (State Broadcasting Company "Tyva"), Victoria Khovalyg ("Slovo"-"Word" news-paper), Sayana Mongush (Internet agency "tuva-online"), Ayana Lama (SBC "Tyva")