Soldiers from China on a Type 96B (ZTZ-96B) battle tank compete in an individual race during the Tank Biathlon 2022 as part of the International Army Games ARMI-2022 at the Alabino training and tactical complex outside Moscow, Russia, 17 August 2022. The event runs until 27 August. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)





Soldiers from China on a Type 96B (ZTZ-96B) battle tank compete in an individual race during the Tank Biathlon 2022 as part of the International Army Games ARMI-2022 at the Alabino training and tactical complex outside Moscow, Russia, 17 August 2022. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)





Russian singer and entrepreneur Timur Yunusov, better known as Timati, drinks coffee at a newly opened Stars Coffee coffee shop in the former location of the Starbucks coffee shop in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, August 18, 2022. A new chain of coffee shops opens Thursday in Moscow, after Russian singer and entrepreneur Timur Yunusov, better known as Timati, together with Russian restaurateur Anton Pinskiy bought the Starbucks stores following company's withdrawal from Russia. (Photo by Dmitry Serebryakov/AP Photo)





Staff members pose for pictures at the launching of the new coffee shop “Stars Coffee”, which opens following Starbucks Corp company's exit from the Russian market, in Moscow, Russia on August 18, 2022. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





This handout picture released by Greenpeace Russia on August 18, 2022, shows a wildfire from a helicopter in Ryazan region outside Moscow. (Photo by Handout/Greenpeace Russia via AFP Photo)





Members of pro-government youth clubs stand in the shape of the image of Russia on the map holding balloons in the colours of the Russian flag near a statue of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin during preparations for the celebration of the Day of the Russian National Flag, which will be held on August 22, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Worshippers take part in the ceremony of intinction during the celebration of the Apple Feast of the Saviour at a church in Yevpatoriya, Crimea on August 19, 2022. (Photo by Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters)





Putin's “spiritual guide” Alexander Dugin was pictured in despair at the scene of the blast that killed his daughter on August 20, 2022 on Mozhaisk highway near the village of Bolshiye Vyazemi in the Odintsovo urban district in the Moscow region, Russia. In the evening of 20 August a Toyota Land Cruiser car blew up when the car was moving at full speed on a highway, and then burned. The driver, journalist and political scientist Darya Dugina, the daughter of the philosopher Alexander Dugin, died on the spot. According to Russian Investigative Committee, an explosive device was allegedly installed in the car. (Photo by @UrgentAlertNews/Twitter)





A man crosses a street past an army recruiting billboard with the words “Serving Russia is a real job!” in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, August 20, 2022. Six months after Russia sent troops into Ukraine, there's little sign of the conflict on Moscow's streets and the capital's residents seem unconcerned about the economic and political sanctions by Western countries. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Children play on a Soviet anti-aircraft gun in the Saints Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, August 20, 2022. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A group of teenagers practice to dance a K-pop, a modern Korean dance during the warm weather at the Moscow's city skyscrapers in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, August 21, 2022. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A woman and her child wearing t-shirts with letter Z, which has become a symbol of the Russian military walk in the Artillery museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, August 20, 2022. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A woman uses her mobile phone as she walks past a billboard with a portrait of a Russian soldier and the words “Glory to the heroes of Russia” in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, August 20, 2022. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





People pose for photo at a sculpture of Mikhail Kalashnikov, a creator of the Kalashnikov assault rifle in the Artillery museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, August 20, 2022. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





People walk at the Izmailovsky Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, August 21, 2022. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Woman takes her kid out of the MIG-29 fighter jet. Russian international military expo Army Expo 2022 at Patriot park in Kubinka, Moscow, Russia, on August 20, 2022. (Photo for The Washington Post)





First aid demonstration at the stand of the Russian paramedics. Russian international military expo Army Expo 2022 at Patriot park in Kubinka, Moscow, Russia, on August 20, 2022. (Photo for The Washington Post)





People carry a giant Russian flag during celebration of the Day of The National Flag in Mamayev Kurgan, the World War II Battle of Stalingrad memorial, in Volgograd, Russia, Monday, August 22, 2022. (Photo by Alexandr Kulikov/AP Photo)





This photograph taken on August 22, 2022, shows the 540-metres tall Ostankino TV tower through a smog caused by a forest fire in Moscow. Thick smog blanketed Moscow as it blew in from nearby forest fires, which hundreds of firefighters and several aircraft were battling the blazes in the Ryazan region, some 250 kilometres (155 miles) southeast of Moscow, the emergencies ministry said. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Photo)





Philosopher Alexander Dugin speaks during the final farewell ceremony for his daughter Daria Dugina in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, August 23, 2022. Daria Dugina, a 29-year-old commentator with a nationalist Russian TV channel, died when a remotely controlled explosive device planted in her SUV blew up on Saturday night as she was driving on the outskirts of Moscow, ripping the vehicle apart and killing her on the spot, authorities said. (Photo by Dmitry Serebryakov/AP Photo)