Members of the band GeneSiS dance while they record a one-take cover dance video, in a shopping mall in Moscow, Russia, on January 28, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Choreographer Polina Ivanovskaya, 22, leads a dance class at a branch of GSS K-pop studios in Moscow, Russia, on February 2, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





File Photo: A person in cosplay poses for a picture during a cosplay night party for the video game Genshin Impact, at Live Stars club in central Moscow, Russia, on February 11, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





A cover dance band performs during an event devoted to the Spring Festival, at a shopping mall in Khimki, on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia, on February 10, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Muslims pray outside a mosque as they celebrate Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of the Muslims' holy fasting month of Ramadan, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, April 10, 2024. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Volunteers wash a sculpture of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a Russian and Soviet rocket scientist who pioneered astronautics during Cosmonauts Day celebration in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, April 12, 2024. Russia marks the 63rd anniversary of Gagarin's pioneering mission on April 12 1961, the first human flight to orbit that opened the space era. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A local resident swims in the flooded street between houses in Orenburg, Russia, on Saturday, April 13, 2024. Over 11,700 houses remain flooded in the Orenburg region and some 10,700 people have already been evacuated from flooded areas. The deluge hit the region after a dam on the Ural River burst last week under surging waters. (Photo by AP Photo)





A man prepares to jump into rescuers' boat during evacuation amid flooding in Orsk, Orenburg region, Russia, on April 13, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Resident Dmitry Dragoshantsev carries a backpack with his cats out of his flooded house in Orenburg, Russia, on April 12, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Local resident Alexander Timofeyevich pulls a dog that fell into the water to the roof of his flooded house in Orenburg, Russia, on April 12, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





A man sits in an inflatable boat in a flooded residential area in Orsk, Orenburg region, Russia, on April 13, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





A view of room in a flooded house in Orenburg, Russia, on April 12, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





People sail an inflatable boat through a flooded residential area in Orenburg, Russia, on April 12, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Local resident Dmitry Dragoshantsev smokes as he stands in the gate of a flooded house in Orenburg, Russia, on April 12, 2024. The sign on the gate reads: “Dream Street”. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Resident Dmitry Dragoshantsev is helped by a friend to carry a washing machine out of a flooded ground floor in his house in Orenburg, Russia, on April 12, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Zulfiya, a sanatorium employee, is evacuated by rescuers from a flooded sanatorium in Orenburg, Russia, on April 13, 2024. (Photo by Alexander Reshetnikov/Reuters)





A girl competes during a Hobby horsing competition in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Sunday, April 21, 2024. Several dozen kids, 48 girls and one boy, from first-graders to teenagers gathered in a gymnasium in northern St. Petersburg, Russia's second largest city, for a hobby horsing competition. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A portrait of late Soviet Union leader Lenin is seen as Russian Communist supporters attend a flower-laying ceremony at the Mausoleum of Vladimir Ilitch Oulianov Lenin on the 154th anniversary of his birth in Moscow on April 22, 2024. (Photo by Tatyana Makeyeva/AFP Photo)





Two men in Russian Cossack uniforms pose for a selfie after visiting the Mausoleum of the Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin marking the 154th anniversary of his birth in Red Square, with the Historical Museum in the background in Moscow, Russia, Monday, April 22, 2024. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who is in custody on espionage charges, makes a heart-shaped gesture inside an enclosure for defendants before a court hearing in Moscow, Russia, ob April 23, 2024. (Photo by Tatyana Makeyeva/Reuters)