Sunset lights the Kremlin and frozen Moscow River in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, January 16, 2022. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A woman bathes in the icy water of a lake in a forest outside Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Sakhalin Island in Russia's Far East, Wednesday, January 19, 2022. Across Russia, the devout and the daring are observing the Orthodox Christian feast day of Epiphany by immersing themselves in frigid water through holes cut through the ice of lakes and rivers. Epiphany celebrates the revelation of Jesus Christ as the incarnation of God through his baptism in the River Jordan. (Photo by Igor Dudkovskiy/AP Photo)





Promobot CEO Alexei Yuzhakov poses next to Robo-C-2, a humanoid companion robot by Promobot, with its head, neck and arms flexible enough to interact with an audience and make gestures in Perm, Russia on January 20, 2022. The new Promobot creation is equipped with a wide range of facial microexpressions, extremely realistic silicone skin and eyes. (Photo by Vladimir Smirnov/TASS)





Russia's naval cadets walk along a pier at the Kronshtadt Naval base, outside Saint Petersburg, on January 19, 2022. (Photo by Olga Maltseva/AFP Photo)





Russian Communist Party supporters hold flags and pictures as they take part in a memorial ceremony to mark the 98th anniversary of the death of Russian Communist revolutionary Vladimir Ulyanov, also known as Lenin, near his mausoleum at the Red Square in Moscow on January 21, 2022. (Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP Photo)





Russian army service members prepare to fire a mortar shell during drills at the Kuzminsky range in the southern Rostov region, Russia on January 21, 2022. (Photo by Sergey Pivovarov/Reuters)





A train jorney for fans of Harry Potter launched in Saint-Petersburg in the real train called Hogwarts express, duration of a trip around 2 hours, actors wearing costumes of heroes of Harry Potter story perform several activities and take photos with fans on January 22, 2022. (Photo by Sergey Mihailicenko/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Mandarin ducks are seen at the Altufyevo nature reserve in northern Moscow, Russia on January 23, 2022. Mandarin ducks are listed in the Russian Red Book as an endangered species. (Photo by Vasily Fedosenko/TASS)





In this image taken from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, a pair of Tu-95 strategic bombers of the Russian air force are parked at an air base in Engels near the Volga River in Russia, Monday, January 24, 2022. Russia has intensified military drills amid tensions with the West over the buildup of an estimated 100,000 Russian troops near Ukraine that fueled Western fears of an invasion. (Photo by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP Photo)





Vyacheslav is 25 years old spends weekend at ice fishing in one of the chanels of Yenisey river in Krasnoyarsk, Russia on January 22, 2022. Vyacheslav tells many siberians like fishing. He has some special equipment for ice fishing. He use an underwater camera to check out the place for fishing. (Photo by Alexander Manzyuk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Students burn an exam session straw doll at the TISBI university of Management during Russian Students' Day celebrations in Kazan, Russia on January 25, 2022. (Photo by Yegor Aleyev/TASS)





A Russian army service member jumps off an armoured personnel carrier BTR-82 during drills at the Kuzminsky range in the southern Rostov region, Russia on January 26, 2022. (Photo by Sergey Pivovarov/Reuters)





A medical staff member leans on a door while a patient with COVID-19 gets through a Magnetic resonance imaging system at an ICU of an hospital in Krasnodar, southern Russia, Thursday, January 27, 2022. Russia has confirmed 11,404,617 cases of coronavirus and 328,770 deaths, according to the national coronavirus information center. Russia's total excess fatality count since the start of the coronavirus pandemic is at least 929,000. Under half the population is fully vaccinated. (Photo by Vitaliy Timkiv/AP Photo)





A honour guard soldier stands in snowfall as people walk to the Motherland monument to place flowers and wreaths at the Piskaryovskoye Cemetery where most of the Leningrad Siege victims were buried during World War II, in St.Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, January 27, 2022. People gathered to mark the 78th anniversary of the battle that lifted the Siege of Leningrad. The Nazi German and Finnish siege and blockade of Leningrad, now known as St. Petersburg, was broken on Jan. 18, 1943 but finally lifted Jan. 27, 1944. More than 1 million people died mainly from starvation during the 900-day siege. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Russian T-72B3 main battle tanks drive during snowfall as the armed forces of the Southern Military District hold drills at the Kadamovsky range in the Rostov region, Russia on January 27, 2022. (Photo by Sergey Pivovarov/Reuters)





A man in a gas mask walks through an underpass at a subway station as protection against coronavirus in Moscow, Russia on January 27, 2022. (Photo by Kommersant Photo Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Medical workers carry a body to a van outside a COVID-19 hospital in Kommunarka, outside Moscow, Russia, Thursday, January 27, 2022. Russia's state coronavirus task force has reported more than 11.3 million confirmed cases and over 328 thousands deaths, by far the largest death toll in Europe. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)





A man climbs a water tower as part of an ice climbing training session held by the Spektr recreation club in Novosibirsk Region, Russia on January 30, 2022. (Photo by Kirill Kukhmar/TASS)





Scuba divers during an ice diving class at the Sea Frogs scuba diving center in the Russian Far Eastern city of Vladivostok on January 30, 2022. The air temperature is –11°C (12.2°F), the water temperature is –2°C (28.4°F). Scuba divers undergo theoretical and practical training in ice diving and perform dives in the open water during the day and the night time as part of the Ice Diver NDL special program. (Photo by Yuri Smityuk/TASS)