Communist supporters hold portraits of Soviet leader Josef Stalin as they queue to lay flowers at the grave of Stalin to mark the 139th anniversary of his birth, in Moscow's Red Square, Russia, Friday, December 21, 2018. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)

Police officers detain an opposition protester during a May Day rally in Saint Petersburg, Russia on May 1, 2019. Labor Day or May Day is observed all over the world on the first day of the month of May to celebrate the economic and social achievements of workers and fight for laborers rights. (Photo by Igor Russak/Reuters)

Journalists interview a girl, member of the Cryophile amateurs winter swimmers club, after bathing in the ice waters of the Yenisei River, during the celebrations for the upcoming Christmas and New Year, in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, December 23, 2017. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)

A brig with scarlet sails travels on the Finnish Gulf coast during a rehearsal for the the Scarlet Sails festivities marking school graduation in St. Petersburg, Russia, early Saturday, June 27, 2020. This year the festival will not be held in the city center, but on the Finnish Gulf. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, there will be no spectators but the event will be broadcast on television. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)

Performers are seen as a 90-year old spruce tree cut down in the woods of the Shchyolkovsky District in Moscow Region, Russia on December 16, 2021 is sent to Moscow. The almost 28-metre high tree will be put up at the Moscow Kremlin's Sobornaya (Cathedral) Square this New Year and Christmas. (Photo by Vasily Fedosenko/TASS)

Local residents walk in a flooded street during an evacuation from a flooded area after the Nova Kakhovka dam breached, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kherson, Ukraine on June 7, 2023. (Photo by Ivan Antypenko/Reuters)

Ukrainian soldiers fire the D-30 artillery to Russian positions in the direction of Klishchiivka as the Russia-Ukraine war continues in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine on August 12, 2023. (Photo by Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Russian riot policemen beat young PREGNANT female anti-Putin activist during a protest rally against the Presidential inauguration of Vladimir Putin on May 6, 2012 in Moscow, Russia.