A couple stand near an improvised memorial to Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and others who died in a plane crash with him, on the 40 days their deaths, near the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, on Sunday, October 1, 2023. Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner military contractor, and nine other people, including his top associates, died when his private jet plummeted into a field northwest of Moscow shortly after taking off on Aug. 23. The authorities have remained silent about a possible cause of the crash. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





The silhouette of an airplane is seen in front of the moon in Moscow on October 4, 2023. (Photo by Yuri Kadobnov/AFP Photo)





An elderly woman holds a portrait of aSoviet leader Josef Stalin as other people gather to march with flowers and portraits of those who were killed during the 1993 bloody clashes between government forces and supporters of the rebellious parliament during a rally marking the 30th anniversary of the events in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, October 4, 2023. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A woman lays flowers in memory of victims after the surprise attack from Gaza, in front of the Israeli Embassy in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, October 8, 2023. Israeli media say at least 600 people have been killed, including more than 40 soldiers. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands inside an enclosure for defendants before a court hearing to consider an appeal against his pre-trial detention on espionage charges in Moscow, Russia on October 10, 2023. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)





Oleg Orlov, a member of the Board of the International Historical Educational Charitable and Human Rights Society “Memorial” (International Memorial), centre, carries a chair, as Nobel Peace Prize awarded journalist Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of the influential Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, left, speaks to journalists at a courtroom prior to a session in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, October 11, 2023. Orlov, the co-chair of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights group Memorial, is on trial on charges of “discrediting” the Russian military in his criticism of Russia's campaign in Ukraine and could face up to five years in prison if convicted. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





People gather to attend a solidarity service for the Israeli victims of the attacks by the Palestinian militant group Hamas at the Moscow Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, October 15, 2023. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A 180 degrees rotated photograph shows a person walking near St. Basil's Cathedral and the Moscow Kremlin reflected in a puddle on a rainy day in downtown Moscow, Russia, 16 October 2023. Temperatures in Moscow dropped to six degrees Celsius. (Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA/EFE)





This handout picture released by the Gagarin Cosmonauts' Training Centre on October 17, 2023 shows Marina Vasilevskaya (L) flying during a parabolic flight aboard a zero-gravity simulator, a Russian IL-76 MDK aircraft used for cosmonauts' training flights in weightlessness, in Star City outside Moscow. Belavia flight attendant and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, along with NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, will blast off to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft in March 2024 and will spend approximately 12 days aboard the orbital complex. (Photo by Pavel Shvets/Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center/AFP Photo)





A Chinese tourist poses with pigeons in Vladivostok, Russia on October 16, 2023. (Photo by Tatiana Meel/Reuters)





Igor Girkin also know as Igor Strelkov, the former military chief for Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, sits in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow's City Court in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, October 17, 2023. A prominent Russian hard-line nationalist who accused President Vladimir Putin of weakness and indecision in Ukraine was detained on charges of extremism. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, who holds Russian and U.S. citizenship, attends a court hearing after being detained on suspicion of failing to register as a “foreign agent”, in Kazan, Russia on October 20, 2023. (Photo by Alexey Nasyrov/Reuters)





An advertising screen depicting Russian army soldiers promotes contract military service in the Russian army at the Nevsky Prospect, the central avenue of St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, October 21, 2023. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A model displays a creation by Russian designer Ekaterina Sokhareva during the Volga Fashion Week in Moscow, Russia on October 21, 2023. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)





A woman walks along an embankment of the Moskva river in front of the buildings of Moscow's International Business Centre (Moskva City) on a foggy day in Moscow on October 23, 2023. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)





A street vendor sells vegetables during snowfall in Omsk, Russia on October 24, 2023. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





This pool photograph distributed by Russian state owned agency Sputnik shows Russia's President Vladimir Putin visiting the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia in Korolyov, outside Moscow, on October 26, 2023. (Photo by Grigory Sysoyev/Pool via AFP Photo)





Visitors look at a model of the BREST-OD-300 reactor unit during a press tour of the new “Atom” pavilion dedicated to Rosatom corporation at the All-Russian Exhibition Center (VDNH) in Moscow, Russia, 26 October 2023. The Atom exhibition pavilion is an educational complex with the largest and most modern exhibition in Russia dedicated to the development of nuclear energy. The total area of the pavilion is 25,000 square meters, and can accommodate more than 2 thousand people at a time. The Atom Pavilion will open on 4 November 2023. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA)





People in the crowd walk shouting antisemitic slogans at an airfield of the airport in Makhachkala, Russia, Monday, October 30, 2023. Russian news agencies and social media say hundreds of people have stormed into the main airport in the Dagestan region and onto the landing field to protest the arrival of an airliner coming from Tel Aviv, Israel. (Photo by AP Photo)





People in the crowd walk shouting antisemitic slogans at an airfield of the airport in Makhachkala, Russia, Monday, October 30, 2023. (Photo by AP Photo)