The Governor of the Oryol region Vadim Potomsky told Vestnik Kavkaza about cooperation with the republics of the North Caucasus.
"We are cooperating with Dagestan, Ingushetia, Chechnya, Kabardino-Balkaria in a number of areas," he said.
"We have very good and neighborly relations," Potomsky stressed, expressing hope that "they will only be strengthened in the future".
The head of the region, speaking about the upcoming celebration of the 450th anniversary of the Orel foundation on August 5, said that the leaders of these republics will arrive in the city.
"I've been in all these places, now they will make a return visit to Orel," Vadim Potomsky concluded.