A Navy officer fires a cannon midday shot in the Saint Peter and Paul Fortress in St.Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, May 24, 2020. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Russian Emergency Situations Ministry workers sanitize Kazansky Railway Station as part of the campaign to prevent the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus which causes the COVID-19 disease in Moscow, Russia, 28 May 2020. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin decided to lift coronavirus restrictions starting 1 June 2020. All non-grocery shops and some service sector businesses will be allowed to re-open. Citizens will also be able to walk outside using a schedule system and all parks except for Zaryadye Park will reopen. (Photo by Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA/EFE)





Servicemen of Russia's Emergencies Ministry wearing protective gear disinfect Moscow's Leningradsky railway station on May 19, 2020, amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Photo)





Russian recruits wait for a medical check-up in the recruitment center in St. Petersburg, Russia, 20 May 2020. According to a decree of the Russian President, 135,000 people will be sent to the army during the spring call-up. Amid the pandemic Covid-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, since 20 May 2020 Russian military recruiting offices have begun sending recruits of the spring army call-up to the army, keeping in line with strict sanitary measures. All conscripts are necessarily tested for coronavirus COVID-19 infection, their relatives are not allowed to the sites of the ceremony of taking the military oath by conscripts. All conscripts after arrival to the site of military units deployment will undergo a two-week quarantine. (Photo by Anatoly Maltsev/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Final-year student Alina Repkina prepares for a livestream of the Last Bell ceremony for school leavers at secondary school No 11 in Rostov-On-Don, Russia on May 30, 2020. It is the first time in Russia that such ceremonies have been held via video link due to the coronavirus lockdown restrictions. (Photo by Valery Matytsin/TASS)





An employee has her body temperature measured in a hypermarket of the OBI home improvement and gardening retailer in the town of Khimki outside Moscow, Russia on May 31, 2020. According to recommendations of the Russian Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor), the number of customers allowed to the store is limited. (Photo by Sergei Bobylev/TASS)





In this photo taken on Monday, May 18, 2020, Dr. Irina Vaskyanina adjusts a face mask to protect against coronavirus during her interview with the Associated Press in front of a hospital in Reutov, just outside Moscow, Russia. Vaskyanina headed a department handling blood transfusions at a hospital in Reutov, outside Moscow, and spent weeks fighting for better working conditions after 40 of her colleagues got infected with the virus and dozens quit. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A woman wearing a face mask to protect to coronavirus plays accordion to get some money in Mytishchi, just outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, May 27, 2020. The coronavirus outbreak has badly hurt Russia's economy, already weakened by a drop in global oil prices and Western sanctions. According to government statistics, unemployment has jumped to 4.3 million people in April, the highest number since 2016. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Russian Border Guard veterans with their military flags celebrate their service holiday in front of closed due to coronavirus pandemic Gorky Park in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May 28, 2020. Russia marked the 102nd anniversary of its Border Guards on Monday. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A Russian Border Guard veteran tries to to stretch in front of members of stretching class record their excises as he comes to celebrate Border Guards service holiday at closed due to coronavirus pandemic Gorky Park in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May 28, 2020. Russia marked the 102nd anniversary of its Border Guards on Thursday. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A man carries a wooden cross near the entrance of a cemetery outside Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, May 26, 2020. Russia reported more than 360,000 confirmed coronavirus cases on Tuesday and more than 3,800 deaths. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)





A worker of the public transport network wearing a protective face mask guards a security checkpoint at the entrance to the Leningradsky Railway Station amid the ongoing coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic in Moscow, Russia, 19 May 2020. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced a resumption of work of industrial and construction enterprises in Moscow from 12 May on, in accordance with the implementation of measures to support the economy and the social sector, while restrictions imposed to stem the widespread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus which causes the COVID-19 disease will be valid until 31 May 2020. (Photo by Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA/EFE)





A municipal worker cleans the monument of Tsar Peter The Great from a crane during preparations for the City Day in St. Petersburg, Russia, 26 May 2020. St. Petersburg will celebrate its 317th anniversary on 27 May. (Photo by Anatoly Maltsev/EPA/EFE)





A woman carries plastic bags with groceries in an underground passage. Russian President Vladimir Putin has expanded non-working period till April 30, 2020 to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. (Photo by Yevgeny Sofiychuk/TASS/Sipa USA)





A woman takes a selfie at a salt production site on the bed of a drained area of the Sasyk-Sivash lake near the city of Yevpatoria, Crimea on May 31, 2020. (Photo by Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters)