An orthodox nun lights candles during a service marking the Holiday of Annunciation in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, on April 7, 2021. In Christianity, Annunciation celebrates the revelation to the Virgin Mary that she would bear a son, Jesus. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)





DOXA magazine editors from left, Armen Aramyan, Natalya Tyshkevich and Alla Gutnikova wait for a court session as a police officer, left, stands next in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 14, 2021. Russian authorities levied criminal charges Wednesday against four young editors of an online student magazine that had coverage about the nationwide protests supporting jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny earlier this year. (Photo by Denis Kaminev/AP Photo)





A woman walks past sculptures “Young Rino” (C) and “Rabbit” (L) by Olya Muravina in a park in Moscow during a warm spring day on April 13, 2021. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)





A man walks in front of a 60 meters high picture of the first USSR cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin created by graffiti artist from Italy IJorit Agoch in Odintsovo, Moscow region, Russia, 12 April 2021. The picture is painted on a nineteen-storey building in a residential area of the city of Odintsovo. Russia marks the 60th anniversary of the first human spaceflight on April 12. (Photo by Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA/EFE)





Vehicles drive along a flooded street. The flooding is caused by snowmelt in Omsk, Russia on April 6, 2021. (Photo by Yevgeny Sofiychuk/TASS)





A person takes part in a carnival descent to mark the end of the ski season at the Gorny Vozdukh (Mountain Air) resort in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia on April 11, 2021. (Photo by Yuri Fyodorov/TASS)





A woman carrying buckets crosses a street in the town of Tara in Omsk Region, Russia on April 12, 2021. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





A man enjoys surfing in Sobol Bay, off the coast of Ussuri Bay in Vladivostok, Russia on April 14, 2021. (Photo by Yuri Smityuk/TASS)





An industrial climber uses a pressure washer to clean the Monument to the Conquerors of Space in the Cosmonauts Alley at the VDNKh exhibition center in Moscow, Russia on April 7, 2021. (Photo by Sergei Savostyanov/TASS)





A Russian service member runs before a rehearsal for the Victory Day parade, which marks the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, near Stavropol, Russia on April 6, 2021. (Photo by Eduard Korniyenko/Reuters)





A volunteer dressed as the Star Wars character Darth Vader picks up trash during a street cleaning event marking the 60th anniversary of the first manned space flight in Irkutsk, Russia on April 12, 2021. (Photo by Yuri Novikov/Reuters)





Rescuers remove a training dummy from a river during flood control exercises in the city of Svetlograd in Stavropol Region, Russia on April 14, 2021. (Photo by Eduard Korniyenko/Reuters)





A Vostok rocket similar to the one that carried Yuri Gagarin on his flight to space is displayed in Moscow, Russia, Friday, April 9, 2021. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space 60 years ago. The successful one-orbit flight on April 12, 1961 made the 27-year-old Gagarin a national hero and cemented Soviet supremacy in space until the United States put a man on the moon more than eight years later. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Spectators watch a projection of Yuri Gagarin's portrait to mark the 60th anniversary of the first human space flight in Saint Petersburg, Russia on April 12, 2021. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





Children and their parents release birds celebrating the Annunciation on the eve of Orthodox Easter in front of the St. Tatiana Church in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Eastern Orthodox churches, which observe the ancient Julian calendar, usually celebrate Easter later then Western churches. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





People look at smoke and flame rising from the Nevskaya Manufaktura textile factory founded by English merchant J. Thornton in 1841, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, April 12, 2021. The emergencies ministry said the fire had broken out over several floors of the red-brick Nevskaya Manufaktura building on the Oktyabrskaya Embankment of the Neva River. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Flames and smoke rise during a fire at the Nevskaya Manufaktura factory in central Saint Petersburg, Russia on April 12, 2021. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





Smoke and fire rise over the building of the factory “Nevskaya manufactory” located near the Oktyabrskaya embankment of the Neva in St. Petersburg, Russia, 12 April 2021. Some 300 firefighters and 60 pieces of equipment and a helicopter are taking part in extinguishing the fire. One firefighter was killed when extinguishing the fire. (Photo by Anatoly Maltsev/EPA/EFE)





Drones forming a figure of the first artificial Earth satellite “Sputnik 1” light up the evening sky on the eve of Cosmonautics Day in Veliky Novgorod, Russia on April 11, 2021. (Photo by Press service of the Government of the Novgorod region/Handout via Reuters)





Moscow municipal workers clean the Yuri Gagarin monument in preparation for Cosmonaut Day, the 60th anniversary of Yury Gagarin's space flight, in Moscow, Russia, 09 April 2021. The monument is over 40 meters tall. Russia marks the 60th anniversary of the first human spaceflight on April 12. (Photo by Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA/EFE)