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Astana - Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend the interregional cooperation forum in Yekaterinburg on November 10-11, the Kazakh President's Central Communications Service spokesman Altai Abibullayev said. 

“The tenth interregional cooperation forum will take place in Yekaterinburg on November 10-11 in the presence of President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Russian President Vladimir Putin,” he told a Monday press briefing at the Central Communications Service in Astana.

Industrial cooperation is the jubilee forum’s theme.

Ministers, department chiefs, heads of border regions, large industrial enterprises, research institutes, national holdings and companies, and experts on innovative technologies will participate in the forum.

“An industrial cooperation show, an expanded meeting of the Kazakh-Russian Business Council and a youth forum will be held on the forum sidelines,” the spokesman said.

It is also planned to sign a number of bilateral documents, which will foster mutually advantageous cooperation between Kazakhstan and Russia.

“A new agreement on neighborliness and alliance between Kazakhstan and Russia to be signed by the heads of state will be the keynote document of the forum,” Abibullayev said.