MOSCOW, June 24. /TASS/. The Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) will be held in the hybrid format this year, online and offline, Roscongress Foundation, the Forum organizer, said on Thursday.

"The Eastern Economic Forum will be the second major international event in this year after SPIEF, to be held in the hybrid format. We expect high-level guests to attend in the traditional — offline and in the offline format. Sanitary-epidemiological safety provision is the unconditional priority during the event," aide to the Russian President Anton Kobyakov said, cited by Roscongress.

Compulsory PCR testing of participants will be organized during the forum, Roscongress says. 

The Eastern Economic Forum will be held in Vladivostok from September 2 to 4.