A man looks at his phone as he lies at the Muzeon Park of Arts during a warm day in Moscow, Russia on April 12, 2023. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)





Men look at their phones walking past an army recruiting billboard with the words “Military service under contract in the armed forces”, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, April 12, 2023. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Museum workers open protective wooden crates of Venetian marble statues after wintering on the Hermitage Alley of the Catherine Park in front of the Catherine Palace in the Tsarskoye Selo museum-reserve in St. Petersburg, Russia, 13 April 2023. The museum-reserve houses 30 sculptures and 11 pedestals. It is one of the largest collections in Russia. The museum will be open to visitors from 15 April through 30 October. (Photo by Anatoly Maltsev/EPA/EFE)





A vehicle with a mock Russian missile with the inscription reading “Let's program it again to target Washington” goes in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, April 14, 2023. Pro-Kremlin activist Ravil Garifullin, a resident of the city of Kazan makes a four-month propaganda rally in his car across Russia. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





In this photo provided by the Russian Academy of Sciences' Volcanology Institute, a group of volcanologists walk on volcanic ash covers the ground after the Shiveluch volcano's eruption in Klyuchi village on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, Thursday, April 13, 2023. Shiveluch, one of Kamchatka Peninsula's most active volcanoes, started erupting early Tuesday, spewing ash more than 300 miles (500 kilometers) northwest. Several Russian villages were covered in grey volcanic dust in the largest fallout in nearly 60 years. (Photo by Yury Demyanchuk/Russian Academy of Sciences' Volcanology Institute via AP Photo)





Father Vasily Gelevan, blesses traditional Easter cakes and painted eggs in preparation for an Easter celebration service during the Great Holy Saturday at the Church of the Annunciation of the Holy Virgin in Sokolniki in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, April 15, 2023. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Elderly believers wait an Orthodox priest to bless traditional Easter cakes and painted eggs in preparation for an Easter celebration service during the Great Holy Saturday at the Church of the Annunciation of the Holy Virgin in Sokolniki in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, April 15, 2023. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A young parishioner prepares to take part in a religion procession during the Orthodox Easter service at the Church of the Holy Martyr Tatiana just next to the Kremlin Wali in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, April 15, 2023. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill, center, conducts an Orthodox Easter service in the Christ the Savior Cathedral, in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, April 16, 2023. (Photo by Oleg Varov, Russian Orthodox Church Press Service via AP Photo)





Russian President Vladimir Putin attends an Orthodox Easter service in the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, April 15, 2023. (Photo by Sergei Karpukhin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP Photo)





In this time exposure photo, Orthodox worshippers trail candle lights around a church during Orthodox Easter midnight mass in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, April 16, 2023. Eastern Orthodox churches observe the ancient Julian calendar, and this year celebrate the Orthodox Easter on April 16. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Believers take part in a cross procession marking Orthodox Easter in the town of Dzerzhinsky in the Moscow region, Russia on April 16, 2023. (Photo by Yulia Morozova/Reuters)





Spectators watch the launch of a model rocket depicting a Soviet-made retro VAZ car during a show dedicated to Cosmonautics Day near the Peter and Paul Fortress in Saint Petersburg, Russia on April 16, 2023. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





Maria Eismont, a lawyer of Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza who was found guilty of treason and of discrediting the Russian army, addresses the media in Moscow, Russia on April 17, 2023. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





In this handout photo released by the Moscow City Court, Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza stands in a class cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court in Moscow, on April 17, 2023. The 25-year treason sentence imposed on prominent Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza on Monday was a particularly severe show of authorities' intensifying intolerance of criticism of the war in Ukraine and other dissenting opinions. (Photo by The Moscow City Court via AP Photo)





A municipal worker cleans the monument of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin from a crane during preparations for the 153th anniversary of Lenin's birthday in St. Petersburg, Russia, 18 April 2023. The monument to Vladimir Lenin at the Moscow Square was installed in 1970. It was made according to the project of the sculptor Mikhail Anikushin and is the tallest monument to Lenin in St. Petersburg. (Photo by Anatoly Maltsev/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





US journalist Evan Gershkovich, arrested on espionage charges, stands inside a defendants' cage before a hearing to consider an appeal on his arrest at the Moscow City Court in Moscow on April 18, 2023. (Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP Photo)





This handout photo released by Telegram Channel of Belgorod Region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov shows the site of the crater after an explosion in Belgorod, Russia, Friday, April 21, 2023. A large explosion hit Belgorod late Thursday, and the Defense Ministry said one of its Su-34 warplanes accidentally discharged ammunition over the city about 25 kms. (15 miles) from the Ukrainian border. Belgorod Regional Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said the blast injured at least two people, damaged homes and left a crater about 20 meters (65 feet) across.(Photo by Telegram Channel of Belgorod Region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov via AP Photo)





This handout photo released by Telegram Channel of Belgorod Region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov shows the site of the crater after an explosion in Belgorod, Russia, Friday, April 21, 2023. A large explosion hit Belgorod late Thursday, and the Defense Ministry said one of its Su-34 warplanes accidentally discharged ammunition over the city about 25 km (15 miles) from the Ukrainian border. Belgorod Regional Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said the blast injured at least two people, damaged homes and left a crater about 20 meters (65 feet) across. (Photo by Telegram Channel of Belgorod Region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov via AP Photo)





Muslims pray on the first day of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, outside the Central Mosque in Moscow on April 21, 2023. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)