22 year-old journalist, a graduate of Moscow State University, Nadia Antufieva received a special prize “Nadezhda Sibiri” (“Hope of Siberia”), at the forum “Yenisei RF”, which just transpired in Krasnoyarsk. The jury noted the series of interviews by Nadia Antufieva, which were published in the magazine “Center of Asia”.

The forum in Krasnoyarsk Krai brought together more than 400 journalists from the most varied parts of Russia. As the organizers emphasize, “such a venue for discussions and exchange of experiences will generate development and modernization of the information space of Siberian federal sphere, and will become an annual place of congress of professional journalists of the entire Russia”.

On the eve of the Day of the City, a ceremony took place at the City Hall of honoring a widely known literary critic, candidate of philosophical sciences, member of the Writers’ Union of Russia, Merited Cultural worker of Russia and Tuva, Mariya Andreyevna Khadakhane. By a decision of members of Kyzyl khural, in 2010 she became the holder of the title “Honorary Citizen of Kyzyl’. An “Honorary Citizen” certificate was presented to her, and Premier Sholban Kara-ool with mayor Vladislav Khovalyg congratulated the scholar to the well-deserved award.