Participants dressed in historic armored suits compete in jousting at The St. George's Tournament at Tsaritsyno Park in Moscow, Russia, Friday, September 12, 2025. (Photo by Pavel Bednyakov/AP Photo)





Women sit in a cafe at a book store as a worker washes windows from outside in central St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, September 15, 2025. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





People visit the “12 distorting mirrors” installation near the Manezh Central Exhibition Hall in St. Petersburg, Russia, 19 September 2025. (Photo by Anatoly Maltsev/EPA)





Duc Phuc, who represents Vietnam, performs during the Intervision International Music Contest 2025 in Moscow, Russia, on September 20, 2025. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)





Duc Phuc, who represents Vietnam, holds the trophy after winning the Intervision International Music Contest 2025 in Moscow, Russia, on September 20, 2025. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)





A Peterbald wins the first place in a beauty contest for pet cats during a cat show in Vladivostok, Russia, on September 21, 2025. A cat show is held here on Sunday, featuring various breeds such as Maine Coons, British Shorthairs, Sphynxes and Abyssinians. The event also includes a beauty contest for pet cats. (Photo by Guo Feizhou/Xinhua News Agency/Alamy Live News)





Visitors look at displays at the World Atomic Week International Forum at the VDNKh Exhibition Centre in Moscow, Russia, 25 September 2025. The World Atomic Week international forum, the largest event dedicated to the nuclear and related industries, is being held at the VDNKh Exhibition Centre in Moscow from 25 to 28 September. (Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA)





A yacht sails along the Gulf of Finland at sunset in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, October 2, 2025. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





First-year cadets of a maritime technical academy attend a ceremony to take an oath in the naval port of Kronstadt located outside Saint Petersburg, Russia, on October 3, 2025. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





A visitor walks past the painting the painting 'Giving My Priceless Life' by Chwe Il Bon, San Gum Chehor and Kim Cheol Yung during the first North Korean arts exhibition, titled “The Country of a Great People” in Moscow, Russia, 08 October 2025. The first overseas exhibition of works by North Korean artists features 123 works, including Korean national paintings (Joseon hwa), prints, ceramics, mosaics, and embroidery. A key focus of the exhibition was the comradely relations between Russia and the DPRK during the liberation of the Kursk region. (Photo by Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA)





A person walks near the railway station during heavy snowfall in Novosibirsk, Russia on October 9, 2025. (Photo by Vladislav Nekrasov/Reuters)





Cadets walk along a street during heavy snowfall in Novosibirsk, Russia on October 9, 2025. (Photo by Vladislav Nekrasov/Reuters)





A woman throws fallen leaves and jumps while posing for a photo at the Bauman garden in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, October 14, 2025. (Photo by Pavel Bednyakov/AP Photo)





Diana Loginova, an 18-year-old street musician performing under the name Naoko, who was detained after publicly singing a song banned by the government, in front of a crowd of fans, sits outside a courtroom before a hearing in Saint Petersburg, Russia on October 16, 2025. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





Idol the cat, a six-year-old British Golden Chinchilla, sits on the cobblestone pavement of Red Square while out for a walk with his owner Stanislav in central Moscow, Russia, on October 23, 2025. (Photo by Ramil Sitdikov/Reuters)





Lead singer of pop band Stoptime Diana Loginova (R), who was detained after publicly singing songs by bands known for their opposition to the Russian military campaign in Ukraine, attends court hearings in Saint Petersburg on October 28, 2025. The 18-year-old Russian singer, whose street performances of an anti-Putin song went viral, was arrested for unlawfully organising “a mass gathering”, a court in Saint Petersburg said on October 16, 2025. (Photo by Olga Maltseva/AFP Photo)





The Khabarovsk nuclear submarine is readied for launch at Sevmash shipyard in Severodvindk, Russia on November 1, 2025. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





People dance and wave a Russian national flag during National Unity Day celebrations as others (rear) queue to enter the Hermitage State Museum on Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square in St. Petersburg, Russia, 04 November 2025. The holiday commemorates the popular uprising led by Kuzma Minin and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky that ended the Polish-Lithuanian occupation of Moscow in 1612, ending the Time of Troubles. (Photo by Anatoly Maltsev/EPA)





The “Beaver Moon”, a type of supermoon, sets behind the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia on November 5, 2025. (Photo by Marina Lystseva/Reuters)