Two police officers patrol an almost empty Red Square, with St. Basil's Cathedral, center, and Spasskaya Tower in Moscow, Russia, Monday, April 20, 2020. Officials in Moscow and other regions have ordered most people except those working in essential sectors to stay home through April 30. Residents are only allowed to shop at nearby food stores and pharmacies, walk their dogs and remove trash. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Medical workers get ready for a shift treating coronavirus patients at the Spasokukotsky clinical hospital in Moscow on April 22, 2020. (Photo by Yuri Kadobnov/AFP Photo)





Russian Orthodox priest, Father Nikolai Gensitsky, speaks with believers while having a festive meal during the Easter celebrations in a church in the village of Yekaterininskoye in Omsk Region, Russia on April 19, 2020. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





Cossacks wearing protective face masks pray during a service at the cathedral on the eve of the Orthodox Easter, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Stavropol, Russia on April 18, 2020. (Photo by Eduard Korniyenko/Reuters)





A woman walks on a deserted street past the Vysoko-Petrovsky Monastery in downtown Moscow on April 16, 2020, during a strict lockdown in Russia to stop the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)





Utility workers washing a monument to Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin in Krasnoyarsk, Russia on April 21, 2020. (Photo by Andrei Samsonov/TASS)





Municipal workers clean a marble wall in an empty Manege Square near Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, April 23, 2020. The authorities have ordered most city residents except those working in essential sectors to stay home through April 30 to stem the coronavirus outbreak. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A man rides a scooter through an empty square in front of closed the Central Mosque “Heart of Chechnya” in Grozny, Russia, Thursday, April 23, 2020. Ramadan begins with the new moon later this week as Muslims all around the world are trying to work out how to maintain the many cherished rituals of Islam's holiest month amid the virus pandemic. (Photo by Musa Sadulayev/AP Photo)





Members of the Russian Communist party hold red flags and flowers as they wait to visit Lenin's mausoleum on the Red square in Moscow, as they celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birthday, in Moscow, Russia, 22 April 2020. Vladimir Lenin, a founder of the Russian Communist party and father of the communist revolution in Russia is buried as a mummy on the central capital square. There have been demands to rebury Lenin next to his mother at Volkovo cemetery in St. Petersburg, according to what is said was his will. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)





In this photo taken via online video call on Friday, April 17, 2020, Russian Bolshoi Ballet principal dancers Maria Alexandrova and Vladislav Lantratov attend an online training with their ballet partners at home in Moscow. Russians from many walks of life are struggling to adapt to working remotely because of the coronavirus outbreak. The shutdown has driven many businesses to the verge of collapse and made millions jobless, according to estimates. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)





A Russian poor man eats a charity meal at the Savage Hangar, a feeding point of the Russian Orthodox Church' “Mercy” social service, in Moscow, 16 April 2020. The Salvage Hangar feeds every day around 250 people who are poor, homeless and in need. Volunteers help the social service also in other projects including the delivery of food to the elderly in quarantine. (Photo by Sergei Chirikov/EPA/EFE)





A clergyman wearing a protective face mask sprinkles holy water on believers during a ceremony to bless Easter cakes and eggs on the eve of the Orthodox Easter, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Stavropol, Russia on April 18, 2020. (Photo by Eduard Korniyenko/Reuters)





Emergency paramedics ahead of a house call at the Vladivostok medical emergency service in Vladivostok, Russia on April 23, 2020 during the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. (Photo Yuri Smityuk/TASS)





Municipal watering trucks spray disinfectant liquid on an avenue in downtown Moscow, Russia, 24 April 2020. This is the fifth mass disinfection of public spaces undertaken in Moscow so far in a bid to curb the spread of the pandemic COVID-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. (Photo by Sergei Chirikov/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Believers wearing protective face masks attend the Orthodox Easter service at the Kazan Cathedral amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Stavropol, Russia on April 19, 2020. (Photo by Eduard Korniyenko/Reuters)





A Russian serviceman wearing a protective suit sprays disinfectant on a monument to the Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin while disinfecting an industrial area in Saint Petersburg on April 15, 2020, amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Olga Maltseva/AFP Photo)





A man rides a bike on deserted street in center Moscow, Russia, 17 April 2020. Russian President Vladimir Putin extended the current nationwide lockdown with stay-at-home orders until the end of April in a bid to slow down the spread of the pandemic COVID-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)





Russian Orthodox Church priest blesses food on the eve of Orthodox Easter Sunday in Moscow, Russia, 18 April 2020. Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia called believers to watch Easter service on TV and not to visit the churches in order to avoid coronavirus infection spreading. (Photo by Sergei Chirikov/EPA/EFE)





A rally against the self-isolation order takes place in Svobody Square in front of the Palace of Justice in Vladikavkaz, Russia on April 20, 2020. Non-working period was expanded in the Republic of North Ossetia till April 30, 2020 to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. (Photo by Olga Smolskaya/TASS)





Animal tamer Andrei Dementyev-Kornilov rehearses his elephant circus show Indi-Ra at the Sochi State Circus deserted amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on April 25, 2020. On March 31, the regional authorities ordered to cancel all shows and public entertainment events as part of efforts to counter the spread of the coronavirus infection. (Photo by Dmitry Feoktistov/TASS)