A police officer guards an area as U.S. Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy lays flowers at the monument, a large boulder from the Solovetsky islands, where the first camp of the Gulag political prison system was established, near the building of the Federal Security Service (FSB, Soviet KGB successor) in Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, October 29, 2023. (Photo by Dmitry Serebryakov/AP Photo)





A woman makes the sign of the cross at the Wall of Grief monument on a remembrance day for the victims of political repressions in Moscow, Russia on October 30, 2023. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





People enjoy a warm autumn sunset at Zaryadye Park near Red Square with the Kremlin in the background in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, November 1, 2023. The temperature in Moscow rose to 14 degrees Celsius (57,2 Fahrenheit) and broke the 1934 record by 1.5 degrees Celsius, which is unusual for the beginning of November. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Volunteers make a selfie prior to perform during opening of the International exhibition “Russia” at VDNKh (The Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy) in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, November 4, 2023. The vast show was put together under a decree from President Vladimir Putin and is seen as encouraging patriotism in the runup to the presidential election in March. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





In this photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Sunday, November 5, 2023, The Emperor Alexander III nuclear submarine of the Russia navy test-fires a Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile from the White Sea. The Defense Ministry said the missile's warheads successfully reached designated practice targets on the Kura range on the far-eastern Kamchatka Peninsula. (Photo by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP Photo)





A person stands on a car while looking at Auroras, caused by a coronal mass ejection on the Sun, that illuminate the skies in the southwestern Siberian Omsk region, Russia on November 6, 2023. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





Participants dressed in Red Army World War II uniforms take part in a theatrical performance at an open air interactive museum to commemorate the 82nd anniversary of the World War II-era parade, at Red Square, in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, November 6, 2023. The theatrical performance marks the 82nd anniversary of a World War II historic parade in Red Square and honored the participants in the Nov. 7, 1941 parade who headed directly to the front lines to defend Moscow from the Nazi forces. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





People pose for a photo in front of a Soviet era T-34 tank at an open air interactive museum to commemorate the 82nd anniversary of the World War II-era parade, at Red Square, in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, November 6, 2023. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Participants line up during an exhibition marking the anniversary of a historical parade in 1941, when Soviet soldiers marched towards the front lines in the course of World War Two, in Red Square in Moscow, Russia on November 7, 2023. A slogan on a banner reads: “Everything for the front line, everything for the victory”. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





A communist party supporter holds a portrait of Soviet leader Josef Stalin during a demonstration near Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, November 7, 2023, as they gather to mark the 106th anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, speaks to Gen. Zhang Youxia, vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission, back to a camera, during a meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, November 8, 2023. (Photo by Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP Photo)





A man walks past a billboard reflecting in a puddle depicting the portraits of Russian Army officers in Saint Petersburg on November 8, 2023. (Photo by Olga Maltseva/AFP Photo)





Alexandra (Sasha) Skochilenko, a 33-year-old artist and musician charged with spreading false information about Russia's armed forces after replacing supermarket price tags with slogans protesting against the country's military operation in Ukraine, reacts inside an enclosure for defendants during a court hearing in Saint Petersburg, Russia on November 8, 2023. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





Cable cars are seen over the illuminated Vorobyovy Gory park during chilly autumn weather in Moscow, Russia on November 8, 2023. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, listens to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, center, and Russian Chief of General Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov as they visit the headquarters of Russia's Southern Military District in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on Thursday, November 9, 2023. (Photo by Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP Photo)





Artist Alexandra (Sasha) Skochilenko, who is charged with spreading false information about Russia's armed forces by means of replacing supermarket price tags with slogans protesting against the country's military campaign in Ukraine, makes a heart-shaped gesture inside an enclosure for defendants before a court hearing in Saint Petersburg, Russia on November 14, 2023. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





Darya Trepova, a suspect in a bombing that killed a well-known Russian military blogger, stands in a glass cage as she attends a court hearing in the 1st Western District Military Court, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, November 15, 2023. A military court in St Petersburg starts a trial against a 26-year-old woman Darya Trepova who is charged with terrorism after an attack at a St. Petersburg cafe that killed Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A tourist stands next to cardboard images depicting Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the touristic Arbat street in downtown Moscow on November 15, 2023. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)





In this photo released by Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service on Thursday, November 16, 2023, Russian Emergency Ministry work at the side of a five-storey building partially collapsed in Astrakhan, Russia. Part of a residential building has collapsed in southern Russia, killing one woman and sparking a search and rescue operation, Russian state news agency Tass said. Before part of the building in the southern city of Astrakhan collapsed, the Ministry of Emergency Situations said it had received information about cracks appearing. (Photo by Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service via AP Photo)





Alexandra (Sasha) Skochilenko, a 33-year-old artist and musician, who faces charges of spreading false information about the army after replacing supermarket price tags with slogans protesting against Russia's military operation in Ukraine, reacts during a court hearing in Saint Petersburg, Russia on November 16, 2023. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)