A woman wearing a face mask to protect against the coronavirus disease walks along a street in central Moscow on August 20, 2020. (Photo by Yuri Kadobnov/AFP Photo)





A new infantry rifle called AK-19 manufactured by the Russian company “Kalashnikov” is exhibited at the fair within the ARMY-2020 International Military and Technical Forum, in Kubinka town of Moscow, Russia on August 23, 2020. (Photo by Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A couple walks along an embankment of the Moskva river in front of Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow on August 24, 2020. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)





A protester stands in front of a police officer holding a poster reading “Putin stop poisoning people!” during a picket in support of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in the center of St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, August 20, 2020. Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is on a hospital ventilator in a coma, after falling ill from a suspected poisoning, according to his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh. (Photo by Elena Ignatyeva/AP Photo)





Medical specialists carry Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on a stretcher into an ambulance on their way to an airport before his medical evacuation to Germany in Omsk, Russia on August 22, 2020. Alexei Navalny was taken ill with suspected poisoning en route from Tomsk to Moscow on a plane, which made an emergency landing in Omsk. The local hospital delivering medical support to Navalny later allowed German doctors to fly him to Germany for treatment. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





Alexei Navalny's wife Yulia, center, and Navalny's colleague Ivan Zhdanov, left, arrive to the Omsk Ambulance Hospital No. 1, intensive care unit where Alexei Navalny was hospitalized in Omsk, Russia, Friday, August 21, 2020. Russian doctors treating opposition leader Alexei Navalny say they don't believe he was poisoned and refused to transfer him to a German hospital. (Photo by Evgeniy Sofiychuk/AP Photo)





Visitors row a boat on a pond in the Ostafyevo park in Moscow, Russia, 25 August 2020. (Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA/EFE)





School students attend a homeroom period at School 215 Sozvezdiye on Knowledge Day in Yekaterinburg, Russia on September 1, 2020. (Photo by Donat Sorokin/TASS)





A view of the Spasskaya Tower during assembly work in Red Square in Moscow, Russia on August 19, 2020. (Photo by Alexander Shcherbak/TASS)





A celebration of Kazan City Day and Tatarstan Republic Day in Kazan, Russia on August 30, 2020. Events marking the centenary of the foundation of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (TASSR) are to be held as part of the celebration. (Photo by Yegor Aleyev/TASS)





An apple fair takes place at the Saviour Monastery of St Euthymius during the Feast of the Transfiguration in Suzdal, Russia on August 19, 2020. Annually celebrated by the Russian Orthodox Church on August 19, it belongs to the Twelve Great Christian Feasts. In the Russian tradition, believers bring harvested apples to the church for blessing, hence the feast's another name Yablochny Spas (Apple Feast of the Saviour). (Photo by Vladimir Smirnov/TASS)





A model presents a creation during a fashion show at the Crimean Fashion Week on the bed of a drained area of the Sasyk-Sivash lake near the settlement of Pryberezhne (Pribrezhnoye), Crimea on August 22, 2020. (Photo by Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters)





A model showcases a creation during a runway show for the collection by the Crimean designers at the 2020 Crimean Fashion Week on Lake Sasyk in Crimea, Russia on August 22, 2020. (Photo by Sergei Malgavko/TASS)





Pupils wearing face masks to protect against coronavirus sit in a classroom during a ceremony marking the start of classes at a school as part of the traditional opening of the school year known as “Day of Knowledge” in Grozny, Russia, Tuesday, September 1, 2020. Across the country, schools start their usually festive opening day on Sept. 1. (Photo by Musa Sadulayev/AP Photo)





A boy looks at stuffed dog Strelka at the Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow, Russia 19 August 2020. Russia celebrates the 60th anniversary of Korabl-Sputnik 2 on 19 August. The two female dogs Strelka and Belka, among other animals, the first creatures to return alive from space. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)





A servieman stands on Vietnam's T-72B3 battle tank during the Tank Biathlon competition held as part of the 2020 International Army Games at the Alabino training ground in Moscow Region, Russia on August 24, 2020. (Photo by Sergei Fadeichev/TASS)





Mikoyan Mig-29 jet fighters of the Strizhi (Swifts) aerobatic team perform during International military-technical forum “Army-2020” at Kubinka airbase in Moscow Region on August 25, 2020. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Serbia's T-72B3 battle tank competes in an individual race of the Tank Biathlon competition as part of the 2020 International Army Games at the Alabino training ground in Moscow Region, Russia on August 23, 2020. (Photo by Sergei Bobylev/TASS via Getty Images)





A fountain filled with watermelons and melons as part of the Moscow Summer. Flower Jam festival at Moscow's GUM department store in Moscow, Russia on August 26, 2020. (Photo by Mikhail Japaridze/TASS)





People descend on steel ropes across the Moscow River in Moscow, Russia, 27 August 2020. The steel ropes are 700 meters long, the speed is up to 60 km per hour. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)