TSKHINVALI, GEORGIA - AUGUST 21: A crowd looks on as Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, who hails from Ossetia, conducts a concert for South Ossetia's war dead August 21, 2008 in Tskhinvali, the capital of the Georgian breakaway province of South Ossetia. Gergiev conducted an elegy, or music of mourning, from Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 as well as Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7, in a concert that was broadcast live on Russian television. South Ossetia has been de facto independent from Georgia since the early 1990s, and has been forging closer ties with Russia in the aftermath of the recent Russia-Georgian war. Getty Images logo Getty Images 45 months ago

TSKHINVALI, GEORGIA - AUGUST 21: A crowd looks on as Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, who hails from Ossetia, conducts a concert for South Ossetia's war dead August 21, 2008 in Tskhinvali, the capital of the Georgian breakaway province of South Ossetia. Gergiev conducted an elegy, or music of mourning, from Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 as well as Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7, in a concert that was broadcast live on Russian television. South Ossetia has been de facto independent from Georgia since the early 1990s, and has been forging closer ties with Russia in the aftermath of the recent Russia-Georgian war.

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