A woman wearing a face mask during a protect against coronavirus infection as she walks past a statue of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin, in Kirovsk, about 30 kilometres (19 miles) east of St.Petersburg, Russia, Monday, June 8, 2020. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Grey seals released into the waters of the Gulf of Finland by employees of the Marine Mammals Research and Conservation Center, where they were kept, in the Okunyovaya Bay, Leningrad Region, Russia on June 5, 2020. The center conducts treatment and rehabilitation of sick and injured animals and prepares them for the release in their natural habitat. (Photo by Alexander Demianchuk/TASS)





An employee removes a plastic cover from goods at the shop window after reopening in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, June 1, 2020. Monday's reopening of retail stores along with dry cleaners and repair shops comes as the pace of contagion has stabilized in the Russian capital that has accounted for about half of the nation's infections. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr./AP Photo)





A view shows a railway bridge across the Kola River that collapsed after its foundations were washed away by rapidly melting snow and strong flows of water, near Murmansk, on June 3, 2020. (Photo by Lev Fedoseyev/TASS)





Medical workers wearing protective gear to protect against coronavirus infection, carry a patient at infectious diseases hospital where patients with coronavirus are treated in St.Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, June 3, 2020. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A woman walks in downtown Moscow on May 30, 2020. Moscow residents ventured out to exercise, stroll and shop on June 1, as the city eased a nine-week lockdown, but millions remained largely confined to their homes as Russia recorded more coronavirus cases. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)





A woman rides her skateboard at the Sokolniki park in Moscow in Moscow on June 7, 2020. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)





In this April 8, 2020, file photo, police officers check documents of a woman to ensure she is complying with a self-isolation regime due to the coronavirus in Moscow, Russia. A smartphone app designed to track Moscow's quarantined patients was rolled out by city officials in early April, but complaints about it have mushroomed, with users saying the software is full of glitches and has imposed unwarranted fines on them. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)





A woman read a book as she walks at an outdoor book market in the Red Square with GUM, State Department store at left, St. Basil's Cathedral, center and the Kremlin Wall, right, in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, June 6, 2020. Muscovites clad in face masks and gloves ventured into Red Square for an outdoor book market, a small sign of the Russian capital's gradual efforts to open up amid coronavirus concerns. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Parishioners wearing face masks to protect against coronavirus, observe social distancing guidelines cross themselves as they attend service at the Epiphany Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, June 2, 2020. Churches in Moscow reopen to believers after a two-month lockdown imposed to control the spread of the coronavirus. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Sellers at a market in the town of Yuryevets in Ivanovo Region, Russia on June 7, 2020. The Ivanovo Region authorities allowed family walks, bicycle rides, and reopening non-food retail facilities as the lockdown restrictions are eased amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Vladimir Smirnov/TASS via Getty Images)





People enjoy warm weather by an embankment of the Moscow River during sunset in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, June 7, 2020. The authorities in Moscow have eased the tight lockdown restrictions introduced in late March, due to the outbreak of coronavirus. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Seagulls sit on the head of a sculpture of Russian poet Aleksander Pushkin on the day of his 221st birthday in Naziya village, 80 km (50 miles) east of St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, June 6, 2020. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A woman wearing a protective face mask sells ice cream in downtown Moscow on June 4, 2020. The World Health Organisation said on June 3 the number of coronavirus cases was slowly declining in Russia as the Kremlin prepared to stage a vote to change the constitution. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)





Russian orthodox believer kisses an icon during a church service at the Kazansky cathedral, in central Saint Petersburg, on June, 5, 2020 as the country adopts measures to curb the spread against the COVID-19, the novel coronavirus. (Photo by Olga Maltseva/AFP Photo)





A woman wearing a face mask and gloves to protect against coronavirus looks at her cellphone inside the GUM, State Department store in Moscow, Russia, Monday, June 8, 2020.The Russian capital is ending a tight lockdown that has been in place for more than two months, citing a slowdown in the coronavirus outbreak. Moscow's mayor said that starting Tuesday residents will no longer be required to obtain electronic passes for travel and can walk, use public transport and drive without any restrictions. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Anton Mikheyev, an artist of the Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, trains in a forest amid the self-isolation regime in Moscow Region, Russia on June 7, 2020. (Photo by Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS)





Young women in Cossack costume pose for a photograph in the port of Vladivostok, Russia on June 3, 2020 during a ceremony marking the arrival of the tallship Pallada from a round-the-world voyage. At the end of 2019, three ships of Rosrybolovstvo – the Pallada, the Kruzenshtern, and the Sedov – started a round-the-world voyage to mark the 200th anniversary of the discovery of Antarctica by Bellingshausen and Lazarev, and the 75th anniversary of Soviet victory in the 1941-45 Great Patriotic War. The Pallada and the Sedov arrived in Vladivostok on 3 June 2020. (Photo by Yuri Smityuk/TASS)





A woman wearing a protective face mask and gloves walks through a disinfection cabin at entrance of the Evropeyskiy shopping mall in Moscow on June 1, 2020. Moscow residents ventured out to exercise, stroll and shop on Monday as the city eased a strict nine-week lockdown, but millions remained largely confined to their homes as Russia recorded thousands more coronavirus cases. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Photo)





School leavers celebrate the end of their final academic year during a Last Bell ceremony at Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk's Cadet School in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia on June 5, 2020. (Photo by Sergei Krasnoukhov/TASS)