The XI Russian-Kyrgyz Interregional Conference took place in Krasnoyarsk with the participation of government officials and representatives of business circles of both the Russian Federation and the Kyrgyz Republic. The forum became a platform for a number of cooperation agreements signed between the Krasnoyarsk Region and the Batken Region of Kyrgyzstan, as well as Krasnoyarsk and the cities of the Republic.

Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Mikhail Kotyukov took part in the events of the Conference. The Governor noted that the Republic and our Region share a lot of cultural traits:

— Dear friends, we are connected by the history itself, a shared culture. There are posters for performances of Krasnoyarsk creative groups in Bishkek filling its concert halls 70 years ago found in the regional archives. Several generations of our citizens were raised on the works of the famous Soviet and Kyrgyz writer Chingiz Aitmatov, and today film screenings and exhibitions dedicated to his work are held in Krasnoyarsk. After the Great Patriotic War, regional farmers sent wagons with potato seeds to the young republic as support for agricultural development. Which, of course, is already our history, but it was then that the foundations were laid for the further strengthening of our friendly relations.

The heads of the delegations also made speeches: the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexey Overchuk from the Russian side, and the Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers - Head of the Administration of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic Akylbek Zhaparov from the Kyrgyz side.

Several agreements on cooperation were signed at the Conference. A memorandum of intent for cooperation between the Krasnoyarsk Region and the Batken Region of the Kyrgyz Republic in the field of industry, agriculture, education, youth policy, culture, sports and tourism was signed by Mikhail Kotyukov and the plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic in the Batken Region Abdikarim Alimbaev. A memorandum of cooperation between the Krasnoyarsk City Administration and the Batken City Administration was signed by the Krasnoyarsk Mayor Vladislav Loginov and the Mayor of Batken Imamnazar Burkanov. An agreement on cooperation in trade, economic, scientific, technical, cultural and humanitarian spheres between the administration of the city of Krasnoyarsk and the mayor's office of Jalal-Abad was signed by Vladislav Loginov and representatives of the Mayor's office of Jalal-Abad.

More than 600 delegates from Russia and Kyrgyzstan took part in the Interregional Conference. As part of the business programme of the forum, plenary sessions were held on the use of information technology in industry, on the prospects for cooperation in the agricultural sector, on interregional cooperation in the EAEU space and on intermunicipal cooperation.