A woman dressed in the fashion of the middle of the last century poses in front of a ragged Mercedes issued in the early 40s, after a rally of retro cars during sunset at the VDNH, Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy, in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, April 23, 2023. The monument to the first Soviet rocket Vostok is in the background. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Russian conscripts called up for military service line up before their departure for garrisons as they gather at a recruitment centre in Simferopol, Crimea on April 25, 2023. (Photo by Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters)





Russian military servicemen during the rehearsal for a military parade at the Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square in St. Petersburg, Russia, 25 April 2023. Russia will hold a Victory Day military parade on 09 May 2023 to mark the 78th anniversary of the capitulation of Nazi Germany in 1945. (Photo by Anatoly Maltsev/EPA)





Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen on a TV screen, as he appears in a video link provided by the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service in a courtroom of the Basmanny Court in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. The court discussed procedure for a trial on new charges against Navalny. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Yevgeny Roizman, former mayor of Russia's fourth-largest city Yekaterinburg, speaks to a journalist while waiting for a session in a courtroom, in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. Roizman, a sharp critic of the Kremlin and one of the most visible and charismatic opposition figures in Russia, is accused of discrediting the Russian military. (Photo by Vladimir Podoksyonov/AP Photo)





Russian service members line up before a rehearsal for a military parade marking the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two in Moscow, Russia on April 27, 2023. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)





Russian people watch as a Yars intercontinental ballistic missile launcher drives on Tverskaya street in Moscow, Russia, 27 April 2023, during a rehearsal of the military parade which will take place on the Red Square on 09 May to commemorate the victory of the Soviet Union's Red Army over Nazi-Germany in WWII. (Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA/EFE)





In this handout photo made from video released by the Governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev telegram channel on Saturday, April 29, 2023, a firefighter speaks on the walkie talkie as smoke and flame rise from a burning fuel tank in Sevastopol, Crimea. A massive fire erupted at an oil reservoir there after it was hit by a drone, a Russian-appointed official there reported on Saturday. (Photo by Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev telegram channel via AP Photo)





Communists party supporters gather near a statue of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin to mark Labor Day, also known as May Day in St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, May 1, 2023. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





In this handout photo released by Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service on Wednesday, May 3, 2023, Firefighters work at the side of an oil depot near Taqman in Krasnodar region, south of Russia. A Ukrainian drone caused a huge blaze at an oil depot behind Russian lines, Russian media reported Wednesday. An oil depot was on fire on Wednesday morning in Russia's southern Krasnodar region, located east of the Russian-held Crimean Peninsula, according to Krasnodar Gov. Veniamin Kondratyev. (Photo by Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service via AP Photo)





A still image taken from video shows a flying object exploding in an intense burst of light near the dome of the Kremlin Senate building during the alleged Ukrainian drone attack in Moscow, Russia on May 3, 2023. (Photo by Ostorozhno Novosti via Reuters)





People gather on the dome of the Kremlin Senate building in central Moscow, Russia on May 3, 2023. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)





People walk past a sign “No fly zone” at the empty Red Square closed for Victory Parade preparation, next to the Moscow Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, May 3, 2023. Russian authorities have accused Ukraine of attempting to attack the Kremlin with two drones overnight. The Kremlin on Wednesday decried the alleged attack attempt as a “terrorist act” and said Russian military and security forces disabled the drones before they could strike. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Servicemen demonstrate their skills during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade which will take place at Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square on May 9 to celebrate 78 years after the victory in World War II in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, May 4, 2023. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Theater director Zhenya Berkovich stands in a cage in a courtroom prior to a hearing in a court in Moscow, Russia, Friday, May 5, 2023. Theater director Zhenya Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk were detained on Thursday on the charge of justifying terrorism because of their play “Finist, the Brave Falcon”. The play is about women who were lured into marriage by representatives of radical Islam, went to live with them in Syria and faced prosecution upon returning to Russia. Berkovich and Petriychuk have maintained their innocence. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Russian Patriotic Youth movement Yunarmiya members hold a giant national flag on Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square during the general rehearsal for the Victory Day parade in Saint Petersburg on May 7, 2023. Russia will celebrate the 78th anniversary of the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany on May 9. (Photo by Olga Maltseva/AFP Photo)





Military cadets demonstrate their skills during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade which will take place at Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square on May 9 to celebrate 78 years after the victory in World War II in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, May 7, 2023. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Russian servicemen arrive to the Victory Day military parade general rehearsal in central Moscow, on May 7, 2023. Russia will celebrate the 78th anniversary of the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany on May 9. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Photo)





Honour guard soldiers march during a laying of flowers and wreaths ceremony at the Piskaryovskoye Cemetery, where most of the Leningrad Siege victims were buried during World War II, on the eve of the Victory Day to celebrate 78 years after the victory in World War II, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, May 8, 2023. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A World War II ages Soviet army T-34 tank rolls during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade which will take place at Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square on May 9 to celebrate 78 years after the victory in World War II in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, May 7, 2023. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)