A Cossack slashes a watermelon with a sabre during a sabre-cutting competition in the village of Novosvetlovsky, Rostov region, on August 27, 2023. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)

A dune buggy driver trains before competing in a sand dune drag racing event on January 8, 2016, as part of the Liwa 2016 Moreeb Dune Festival in the Liwa desert, some 250 kilometres southwest of Abu Dhabi. The festival, which attracts participants from around the Gulf region, includes a variety of races (cars, bikes, falcons, camels and horses) or other activities aimed at promoting the country's folklore. (Photo by Karim Sahib/AFP Photo)

Revellers wearing lanterns parade through the streets during the carnival procession of Basel, Switzerland, 15 February 2016. The traditional Morgestraich starting Monday morning after Ash Wednesday at 4 a.m. marks the kick-off of the Carnival of Basel. (Photo by Patrick Seeger/EPA)

St Andrews University students skinny dip in the sea as May Day celebrations in St Andrews, Scotland on April 30, 2017. Hundreds of revellers ditched their clothes and bravely jumped into the bitterly cold North Sea. (Photo by Alamy Stock Photos)

Ukrainians jump over a fire in Kiev, Ukraine, 06 July 2017, as they celebrate the traditional pagan holiday of Ivana Kupala. Ivana Kupala is celebrated, during the summer solstice, on the shortest night of the year, marking the beginning of summer and is celebrated in Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and Russia on the night of 06 July. People sing and dance around bonfires, play games and perform traditional rituals. Young people jump over bonfires in order to test their bravery. Couples holding hands jump over the flames to test their love. If the couple does not succeed it is predicted to split up. Traditionally, children and young unmarried women wear wreaths of wild flowers on their heads to symbolize purity. (Photo by Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA)

Traffic lights feature illustrations of a homosexual couple in downtown Frankfurt Main, Germany, 18 July 2019. An annual gay pride parade will take place on 20 July 2019 in Frankfurt to commemorate Christopher Street Day (CSD). The event commemorates the riots that erupted following a police raid in 1969 at a gay bar on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village, New York City. (Photo by Armando Babani/EPA/EFE)

A model showcases a creation during a runway show for the collection by the Crimean designers at the 2020 Crimean Fashion Week on Lake Sasyk in Crimea, Russia on August 22, 2020. (Photo by Sergei Malgavko/TASS)

A man bathes in an ice hole in the Neva River in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, January 13, 2021. The temperature in St. Petersburg is –15C ( 5 °F). (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)