Law enforcement officers detain a demonstrator during a protest against constitutional reforms in Saint Petersburg, Russia on February 1, 2020. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





Rescue workers dip a boy in the icy water in the Neva River during a traditional Epiphany celebration in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, January 19, 2020. Thousands of Russian Orthodox Church followers plunged into icy rivers and ponds across the country to mark Epiphany, cleansing themselves with water deemed holy for the day. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Russian honour guards look at each other during the changing of guards ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall following a night snowfall in Moscow on January 23, 2020. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Photo)





Customers outside a McDonald's restaurant in Pushkin Square in Moscow, Russia on January 31, 2020 – the first to have opened in the Soviet Union, celebrating its 30th birthday. (Photo by Sergei Bobylev/TASS)





Sunrise over Russky Bridge across the Eastern Bosphorus Strait off Vladivostok on Russia's Pacific Coast on January 15, 2020. (Photo by Yuri Smityuk/TASS)





A local school teacher Pavel Kudryashov a large format photo camera found in a local photo atelier and exposed among other old cameras in his collection at his yard in a town of Soligalich, Kostroma region, some 600 km to North-East from Moscow, Russia, 10 January 2020. Pavel Kudryashov during many years has a hobby to design and to make bird feeders and bird houses, to collect different old things, found in the left unmanned villages around and to make his yard as a very attractive play ground for his grand children. Such a hobby brings interest in flat and boring province life. (Photo by Sergei Chirikov/EPA/EFE)





A detained lion cub is quarantined at an animal disease control centre in the city of Volgograd, Russia on January 24, 2020. On 23 January 2020, traffic police officers discovered two cages containing the lion cub and a monkey on stopping a car in Novonikolayevsky District, Volgograd Region. The driver, a Dagestani-born 24-year old man, had no pet passports for the animals. The police seized the animals and handed them over to officials of Russia's Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources (Rosprirodnadzor). (Photo by Dmitry Rogulin/TASS)





Journalists watching a live broadcast of Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, at a media center at Moscow's Manezh Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow, Russia on January 15, 2020. (Photo by Mikhail Tereshchenko/TASS)





Women on a bus stop during a snowstorm in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia on January 31, 2020. (Photo by Sergei Krasnoukhov/TASS)





An electronic screen, installed on the facade of a business centre, shows an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin and a quote from his annual address to the Federal Assembly in Saint Petersburg, Russia on January 15, 2020. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





Members of a historical military club, dressed in a World War Two uniform, take part in the historical re-enactment of a battle of breakthrough of the Leningrad Siege in Gostilitsy near Saint Petersburg, Russia on January 26, 2020. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





Russian Communist Party supporters take part in a memorial ceremony to mark the 96th anniversary of the death of Russian communist revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, also known as Lenin, at Red Square in downtown Moscow on January 21, 2020. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)





Russian Communist Party supporters holding red flags gather by Red Square to take part in a memorial ceremony to mark the 96th anniversary of the death of Russian communist revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, also known as Lenin, in downtown Moscow on January 21, 2020. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)





An inmate meets with his visitor on the Open Doors Day marking the belated New Year and Christmas season at a high-security penal colony in Omsk, Russia on January 14, 2020. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





A boy sits near a snowman in Kolomenskoye park in Moscow, Russia on January 12, 2020. (Photo by Yuri Kadobnov/AFP Photo)





A bicycle rider passes by a street installation during snowfall in Stavropol, Russia on January 31, 2020. (Photo by Eduard Korniyenko/Reuters)





A woman sells tangerines, pomegranates, persimmons in Moscow, Russia on January 20, 2020. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)





An environmental activist pickets in front of the Russian Foreign Ministry headquarters demanding a thorough screening of passengers arriving from Southeast Asia to protect against the spread of the coronavirus which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan, in Moscow on January 24, 2020. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)





A woman plays with a child in Moscow's Tushino park after a snowfall on January 22, 2020. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Photo)





Young women take part in the Governor's Student Ball held at Platov South-Russian State Polytechnic University (NPI) in Novocherkassk, Russia on January 24, 2020, to mark Tatiana Day (Students Day). The ball gathers 750 most outstanding students from the twelve largest universities of the Rostov-on-Don Region. (Photo by Valery Matytsin/TASS)





Dogs are seen inside a car during the Hyperborea-2020 dog sled race in Omsk, Russia on February 1, 2020. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)