People refresh themselves at a fountain on a hot day in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, July 25, 2025, with a statue of the Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin in the background. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A woman sits at a fountain on a hot day in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, July 25, 2025. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A man wearing a sailors' cap and striped vest takes a selfie photo in front of a warship during celebrations of Russia's Navy Day in Kronstadt outside Saint Petersburg, Russia, on July 27, 2025. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





A woman walks on the street on a hot summer day in Moscow, Russia, 29 July 2025. The temperature in the Moscow region reached 31 degrees Celsius. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA)





Tsunami waves flood an area after a powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, in Severo-Kurilsk, Sakhalin Region, Russia, on July 30, 2025, in this still image taken from video. (Photo by Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences/Handout via Reuters)





Steller sea lions swim during a tsunami approaching the shore of the Antsiferov Island located in the northern Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk, Russia, Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (Photo by Nikita Sinchinov/AP Photo)





A circus performer prepares for Karandash-Fest, a street festival of circus performers in Staritsa, Tver region, Russia, Saturday, August 2, 2025. (Photo by Pavel Bednyakov/AP Photo)





Circus performers prepare for Karandash-Fest, a street festival of circus performers in Staritsa, Russia, August 2, 2025. (Photo by Pavel Bednyakov/AP Photo)





Artists march during street circus festival Karandash-fest, in memory of famous Soviet clown Mikhail Rumyantsev, known under his stage name Karandash, in Staritsa, Tver region, Russia on August 2, 2025. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)





People steer their stand-up paddle (SUP) boards during rainfall along the Moyka River at the annual costumed “Fontanka” SUP-boards festival attracting more than 10,000 participants, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, August 2, 2025. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Defendants in the case of the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall attend a hearing of the Second Western District military court in Moscow, Russia on August 4, 2025. Nineteen people were arrested in Moscow in connection with the terrorist attack at the concert hall in Krasnogorsk that took place on 22 March 2024, in which at least 140 people died when attackers opened fire with automatic weapons in the building and set the auditorium on fire. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)





The full moon is seen behind the flame of a gas torch on top of a Rostral column in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, August 9, 2025. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A man shows off his dancing skills to earn money in central St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, August 11, 2025. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Members of the Central Military Band and the Central Ensemble of the National Military and Patriotic Center of the Kazakhstan Armed Forces perform during the opening of the International Military Music Festival “Spasskaya Tower” on the Red Square in Moscow, Russia, 21 August 2025. The festival runs from 21 to 31 August 2025. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA)





A girl runs under a giant Russian national flag unfurled by volunteers during Russia's National Flag Day celebration in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, August 22, 2025. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Russian cadets and volunteers release balloons bearing the Russian National flag colors during the celebration of the Russian National Flag Day at the Poklonnaya Hill, in Moscow, Russia, 22 August 2025. The day is celebrated since 22 August 1991, when members of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) replaced the Soviet Union Flag with a historical flag of Russia following the failure of a coup. (Photo by Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA)





Members of the Suvorov Cadet Band of the Moscow Military Music College perform during the International Military Music Festival Spasskaya Tower in Moscow, Russia, 26 August 2025. The festival runs from 21 to 31 August 2025. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA)





A Corgi dog and a West Highland Terrier take part in a costume parade at the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy (VDNKh) in Moscow, Russia, on August 30, 2025. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)





Pupils of a secondary school listen to Russia's President Vladimir Putin's address at the first day of the new school year in Moscow on September 1, 2025. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)





A squirrel begs for food from a scooter driver in a park in Moscow on September 2, 2025. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)