‘LPR’ fighters chieftain Igor Plotnitsky offered to hold ‘an annual competition for the best journalist’ in occupied zone of Luhansk region. Separatist internet-editions wrote about it.

Plotnitsky offered ‘prize fund’ of the contest not less than 100 000 RUR. The occupants chieftain told about it ‘on the media representatives awards ceremony, who become winners of monthly contest in January’.

‘I have one more idea. I want you to discuss it next time, when we meet and give me final answer. I don’t how will we call it, I leave you a right for the name ‘Golden pen of Luhansk’ or you can call it whatever you like’, Plotnitsky spoke to journalists.

He added: ‘The nomination will be once a year at the end of it. The premium will be 100 000 rubles. Think, you have a month, how will you evaluate, will this nomination be the only one? You also can think about conditions, I’m not going to impose you anything. If there are journalism or publicism’.