The text of the interview given by the president to the Kazakhstanskaya Pravda newspaper, published this Wednesday on the Kremlin’s official website, highlights that political dialogue and cooperation in multiple spheres are intensifying between Russia and the aforementioned countries.

Among the spheres of cooperation, Putin pointed out the importance of links in security, economy, trade, agriculture, transportation, energy, ecology, public health, humanitarian exchanges, migration and telecommunications.

The Russian president will make an official visit to Kazakhstan on Thursday, a fact that Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov described as very important for the future development of bilateral relations.

These relations, he commented, are closer than those that Kazakhstan maintains with other countries, and include, investments, cooperation in all areas, and “the exchange of opinions on regional problems.”

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