Overview
- President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said the visit will produce a declaration upgrading relations to a comprehensive strategic partnership and alliance.
- Vladimir Putin hosted Tokayev for an extended one-on-one in the Kremlin, with the informal meeting and dinner lasting about three hours.
- Today’s agenda features formal negotiations, a planned signing of multiple bilateral documents and a state luncheon, plus a joint video address to the Russia–Kazakhstan Interregional Forum.
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said all areas of cooperation will be discussed, underscoring broad trade ties and energy plans including trilateral gas projects with Uzbekistan and prior Gazprom–Kazakhstan agreements.
- Topics flagged by Astana and Moscow include a prospective Rosatom-backed nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan and expanded cultural and educational links such as Russian university branches and the planned Sirius school in Almaty.