Russian Permanent Mission Briefs on Concert in Honour of Second World War's End
The Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations holds a press conference on the Youth Symphony Orchestra of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), to perform this evening at UN Headquarters in honour of the 65th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. From left to right: Ruslan V. Bakhtin, First Secretary of the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN; Pianist Denis Matsuev who will take part in the orchestra's programme; Mikhail Shvydkoy, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for International Cultural Cooperation; and Vladimir Spivakov, conductor of the orchestra.