Two women wearing face masks to protect against coronavirus stand in front of a monument of Vladimir Lenin in Ulan-Ude, the regional capital of Buryatia, a region near the Russia-Mongolia border, Russia, Friday, November 20, 2020. Russia’s health care system has been under severe strain in recent weeks, as a resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic has swept the country. (Photo by Anna Ogorodnik/AP Photo)





A boy plays with snow in Red Square in Moscow, Russia on November 22, 2020 after a snowstorm. Temperatures dropped below zero in the Russian capital in mid November. (Photo by Valery Sharifulin/TASS)





A woman wearing a protective face mask walks past coronavirus – themed graffiti depicting a medic in Bugry, outside St. Petersburg, Russia, 17 November 2020. In the past 24 hours, Russia registered 22,410 new cases caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection and a total of 442 coronavirus-related deaths. (Photo by Anatoly Maltsev/EPA/EFE)





A woman plays with a dog during a snowstorm in Vladivostok, Russia on November 20, 2020. Primorye Territory has been hit by rain and a snowstorm which came along with high winds, disrupting power, water and heating supply, Internet connection, and public transport. About 148,000 homes remain without power. (Photo by Yuri Smityuk/TASS)





A tourist wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus takes a photo in Nikolskaya street near Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Friday, November 13, 2020. Coronavirus infections in Russia kept on rising this week, with authorities reporting a record-high 21,983 new cases on Friday, bringing the country's total to nearly 1.9 million. A series of restrictions aimed at curbing the outbreak took effect Friday in Moscow. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A woman from a local cold water training and winter swimming community bathes in an ice hole on Lake Blyudtse (Saucer) in Novosibirsk, Russia on November 21, 2020. (Photo by Kirill Kukhmar/TASS)





People wearing protective face masks, used as a preventive measure against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), wait in a queue near a reception desk at a local clinic in Omsk, Russia on November 9, 2020. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





A man gets out of an ambulance at a temporary hospital in the Krylatskoye Ice Palace, where patients suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are treated, in Moscow, Russia on November 13, 2020. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Medical specialists wearing protective gear look at the blocks of the temporary hospital in the Krylatskoye Ice Palace, where patients suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are treated, in Moscow, Russia on November 13, 2020. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Alexei Dudoladov, student and popular blogger, is seen on a birch tree for better cellular network coverage in his remote Siberian village of Stankevichi, Russia on November 13, 2020. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





A medical worker rests in a relaxation room inside a pavilion of the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy (VDNH), which was converted into a temporary hospital for people suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Moscow, Russia November 17, 2020. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





An athlete carries a body of a car during a strongmen contest “People are stronger than machines” in Sevastopol, Crimea, November 21, 2020. (Photo by Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters)





A general view of a temporary hospital for coronavirus patients set up at the Sokolniki Exhibition and Convention Center in Moscow on November 9, 2020. (Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP Photo)





Light illuminates clouds over apartment blocks in Saint Petersburg, Russia on November 19, 2020. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





A medical worker walks next to patients in the treatment hall of a temporary hospital for coronavirus patients in the Krylatskoye Ice Palace in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, November 18, 2020. Russia’s health care system has been under severe strain in recent weeks, as a resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic has swept the country. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)





A man walks under a damaged power pole covered with ice after freezing rain in the far eastern city of Vladivostok, Russia on November 19, 2020. (Photo by Yuri Maltsev/Reuters)





A medical worker wearing protective gear enters the treatment hall of a temporary hospital for coronavirus patients in the Krylatskoye Ice Palace in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, November 18, 2020. Russia’s health care system has been under severe strain in recent weeks, as a resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic has swept the country. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)





This photo made from the footage provided by Russian Defense Ministry press service on in Tuesday, November 10, 2020 shows Russian peacekeepers taking on a board of military plane in unknown place in Russia. Scores of Russian peacekeepers were heading to Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday morning, hours after Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to halt the fighting over the separatist region in a pact signed with Moscow which envisions the deployment of nearly 2,000 Russian peacekeepers and territorial concessions. (Photo by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP Photo)





A visitor takes pictures of hats by the famous Irish milliner, fashion designer and world's haute couture expert Philip Treacy during the presentation of the exhibition “Maestro Philip Treacy” displayed at the Erarta museum in Saint Petersburg, on November 18, 2020. (Photo by Olga Maltseva/AFP Photo)





Newlyweds celebrate their wedding surrounded by friends on Red Square in Moscow on November 11, 2020, amid the ongoing coronavirus disease pandemic. (Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP Photo)