A woman bungee jumps from the Bungy 69 platform at Skypark AJ Hackett adventure park in Sochi, Russia on February 19, 2021. (Photo by Dmitry Feoktistov/TASS)





Two young women dance at an embankment of the Moskva river in Moscow on February 26, 2021. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)





A Soviet-era steam locomotive pulls a retro train taking tourists to the Ruskeala natural park from the city of Sortavala, Karelia region, Russia on February 18, 2021. Russia’s rollout of its coronavirus vaccine is only now picking up speed in some of its more remote regions. The experts blame the slow rollout on limited supplies of the vaccine, logistical difficulties in distribution and continued hesitance among some Russians. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo/File)





Two fluffy polar bear cubs are seen playing with each other at the Gelendzhik Safari Park in southern Russia, February 27, 2021. Born on January 7, 2021, the two cubs were taken by the park staff as their mother abandoned them. Their human foster mothers take over the rearing responsibilities and look after them carefully. (Photo by VCG/Stringer)





An old woman begs on the street during snowfall in Moscow, Russia, 21 February 2021. The temperature in the Russian capital dro​pped to minus 13 degrees Celsius. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)





A view shows a church in the town of Nikel in Murmansk Region, Russia on February 26, 2021. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)





The Soyuz 2.1b rocket with a Fregat-M booster and meteorology and emergency communications satellite Arktika-M No 1 launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan on February 28, 2021. Arktika-M No 1 is the first of ten Arktika satellites to be launched by Roscosmos into orbit. (Photo by Roscomos/TASS)





A woman lies on the snow as ice swimmers take turns in a 24-hour swimming session in a pit lake in the Yugo-Zapadny residential estate in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, Russia on February 27, 2021. The event honours the memory of WWII Soviet infantry soldier Alexander Matrosov who blocked a German machine-gun with his body. (Photo by Kirill Kukhmar/TASS)





Snow covered figures are pictured at a local park of miniatures in Bakhchisaray, Crimea on February 23, 2021. (Photo by Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters)





A woman stands with a horse next to a graffiti during celebrations of the Defender of the Fatherland Day in Vladivostok, Russia on February 23, 2021. (Photo by Yuri Maltsev/Reuters)





Mariinsky Ballet dancer Ilmira Bagautdinova dances on the frozen Batareinaya Bay of the Gulf of Finland in Leningrad Region, Russia on February 23, 2021 where a grain terminal is to be constructed. The dancer wants to draw the attention of the authorities to the problem and save the beach from development. (Photo by Alexander Sokolov/TASS)





A view of the metallurgical workshop at Kola Mining and Metallurgical Company (Kola MMC), a unit of Russia's metals and mining company Nornickel, in the town of Monchegorsk in the Murmansk region on February 25, 2021. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Photo)





Vadim Agapov battling at the military reenactment the 99th anniversary of the Battle of Volochayevka near Khabarovsk, in Russia's Far East on February 14, 2021. Ninety-nine years after the Battle of Volochayevka, history buffs relive the clash that many see as the end of the Russian Civil War. (Photo by Siberia Desk/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)





Women dressed as nurses for the reenactment of the Battle of Volochayevka near Khabarovsk, in Russia's Far East on February 14, 2021. (Photo by Olga Zykareva/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)





A woman poses in traditional clothing in the Lena Pillars Nature Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site situated 180km southwest of Yakutsk in Yakutia, Russia on February 21, 2021. The air temperature here is around –34°C (–29.2°F). (Photo by Yevgeny Sofroneyev/TASS)





In this image taken from a video released by Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service Thursday, February 25, 2021, a group of Russian diplomats push hand-pushed rail trolley with their children and suitcases to the border with Russia. A group of Russian diplomats and their family members returned to Russia from North Korea on a hand-pushed rail trolley on Thursday because of COVID-19 restrictions in the country, Russia's Foreign Ministry said in a Facebook post. (Photo by Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP Photo)





Smoke rises from the chimney of a house on a frosty winter day in the town of Tara in Omsk Region, Russia on February 22, 2021. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





Women wearing traditional dress of peoples of the North perform at an ethnic village opened as part of the 2021 Beringia Winter Festival in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia on February 22, 2021. The Beringia traditional sled dog race has been held in Russia's Kamchatka Territory since 1990. Participants complete a route of around 1,000 km in severe weather conditions. (Photo by Yuri Smityuk/TASS)





Penguins of the Lasta-Rica circus and visitors at the Bryansk Regional Art Museum in Bryansk, Russia on February 25, 2021. The penguins came to the circus in March 2020, but all the events were cancelled amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Bryansk circus is opening after 10 months of down time. (Photo by Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS/Profimedia)





Participants douse themselves with cold water during a patriotic event titled “Being Healthy is Fashionable” held in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region, Russia on February 23, 2021, to mark Defender of the Fatherland Day. (Photo by Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS)