April 11, 2016 on the invitation of the People's Artist of Russia, artistic director and General Director of the Mariinsky Theatre Valery Gergiev, President of the Republic of South Ossetia Leonid Tibilov attended a concert of the combined orchestra of the Munich Philharmonic and the Mariinsky Theatre, held at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory.
According to the press service of the Embassy of South Ossetia in the Russian Federation, the concert was attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as members of the government and heads of the Russian Federation regions.
After the concert Leonid Tibilov and Valery Gergiev discussed a number of issues, including the cooperation in the field of culture, the support of young talents in the Republic of South Ossetia and conducting of the Days of Ossetia in June 2016 in St. Petersburg with the participation of the Mariinsky Theatre".
The President was accompanied by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of South Ossetia to the Russian Federation Znaur Gassiev.
