Peskov on Putin's visit to Astana

Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Kazakhstan next week, the president’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said.

Peskov said that Putin will visit Orenburg and then Astana in the first half of the week. 

Putin is expected to participate in the business forum, discuss inter-regional cooperation issues, as well as bilateral relations between Kazakhstan and Russia with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev as part of the visit, Peskov added.