Enthusiasts play bike polo in Moscow, Russia on June 30, 2024. (Photo by Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters)





A participant competes in an untrained horse riding competition during the traditional El-Oyin festival in the Oybok tract in the Altai Republic, Russia on July 12, 2024. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





A woman wears a necklace made of cucumbers during Cucumber Day in the Russian ancient city of Suzdal, some 200 km (124 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Saturday, July 13, 2024. For almost two decades, Cucumber Day is celebrated in Suzdal in the middle of July, the best time for harvesting the vegetable. The idea to celebrate it came from the employees of the Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve to reflect historic traditions of vegetable growing in the Suzdal region. (Photo by Pavel Bednyakov/AP Photo)





A woman dressed as cucumber lies near an inflatable cucumber during Cucumber Day in the Russian ancient city of Suzdal, some 200 km (124 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Saturday, July 13, 2024. For almost two decades, Cucumber Day is celebrated in Suzdal in the middle of July, the best time for harvesting the vegetable. The idea to celebrate it came from the employees of the Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve to reflect historic traditions of vegetable growing in the Suzdal region. (Photo by Pavel Bednyakov/AP Photo)





In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin drives a Lada Aura car as he arrives to launch traffic on the new section of the M-11 motorway – known as the “Neva” highway – connecting Moscow and Saint Petersburg, in the Tver region on July 16, 2024. (Photo by Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Pool via AFP Photo)





The sun rises behind the Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God in Saint Petersburg, Russia on July 17, 2024. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





A person with red umbrella walks near Red Square during hot weather in Moscow, Russia on July 17, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





A man rides a bicycle along a bridge during hot weather in Moscow, Russia on July 17, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





A woman walks past the painting “White Water Lilies” by Claude Monet during the “Impressionists instead of heat” campaign, which offers free admission to the Gallery of 19th and 20th Century European and American Art of the State Pushkin Museum in the hottest daytime hours, in Moscow, Russia on July 17, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





A woman takes a picture of a painting during the “Impressionists instead of heat” campaign, which offers free admission to the Gallery of 19th and 20th Century European and American Art of the State Pushkin Museum in the hottest daytime hours, in Moscow, Russia on July 17, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands listening to the verdict in a glass cage of a courtroom inside the building of “Palace of justice”, in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on Friday, July 19, 2024. A Russian court convicted Gershkovich on espionage charges that his employer and the U.S. have rejected as fabricated. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison after a secretive and rapid trial in the country's highly politicized legal system. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Young Russian women dance to the music of Soojin on the pedestrian of Nikolskaya street near Red Square and the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 18, 2024. Seo Soo-jin, better known mononymously as Soojin, is a South Korean singer, dancer, and rapper, who has many fans in Russia. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Warships sail along the Neva River during a naval parade rehearsal in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, July 21, 2024. The celebration of Navy Day in Russia is traditionally marked on the last Sunday of July and will be celebrated on July 28 this year. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A customer stands next to traditional Russian wooden nesting dolls, Matryoshka dolls, depicting (from L) Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at a gift shop at the touristic Arbat street in downtown Moscow on July 22, 2024. Ukrainian foreign minister will visit China on July 23, 2024 for talks on ending Russia's invasion, now in its third year, his ministry announced. China has refused to condemn Russia's invasion and last year released a paper calling for a “political settlement” to the conflict. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)





People with umbrellas walk through Red Square under rain in Moscow, Russia, Monday, July 22, 2024. After hot weather, the temperature in Moscow dropped to 22 Celsius, (71,6 Fahrenheit). (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Actors perform during the Theatrical Boulevard festival in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, July 23, 2024. (Photo by Pavel Bednyakov/AP Photo)





Two women and a dog rest on a hill with the view on city's skyline during sunset time in Moscow, Russia on July 23, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





People walk as street vendors sell ice cream at the  Vorobyovy Gory (Sparrow Hills) viewpoint in Moscow, Russia on July 24, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





In this pool photograph distributed on July 26, 2024, by Russian state owned Sputnik agency, President Vladimir Putin (C) stands next to Orthodox priests as he visits the Valaam Monastery with the Belarusian President, in nothern Russia on July 25, 2024. (Photo by Alexander Kazakov/AFP Photo)





People dance in a circle near a burning installation during the Archstoyanie 2024 festival in the village of Nikola-Lenivets, Kaluga region, Russia on July 27, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)