Following the request of Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District, Deputy Representative Sergey Smetanyuk coordinated an extended work team session on the organization of Russian-Ukrainian Interregional Forum in Ural Federal District. The meeting was dedicated to rounding up the preparations for the forum and to defining the tasks for the remaining time period.

The forum is to be held on September 28-30, 2010 in the Plenipotentiary Representative’s residence in Yekaterinburg. The most important events will take place on September 29, 2010.

The preliminary list of the Ukrainian participants has already been made known. It has been reported that heads of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and of Cherkassy, Dnepropetrovsk, Donetsk, Ivano-Frankovsk, Kharkov, Kherson, Kiev, Kirovograd, Lugansk, Lvov, Vinnitsa, and Zaporozhye Regions are willing to join the forum.