A woman walks along a flooded street following heavy rainfall in Kerch, Crimea August 16, 2021. (Photo by Alla Dmitrieva/Reuters)





Welders work during the control assembly of sculptures of the memorial complex “Prince Alexander Nevsky with the squad” in Khimki Moscow region, Russia, 18 August 2021.The memorial complex will be built near the village of Samolva (Pskov region) on the shores of Peipsi Lake, where the Battle of the Ice took place in 1242. The memorial is planned to be unveiled in 2021 as part of the celebration of the 800th anniversary of the birth of Prince Alexander Nevsky. The memorial complex “Prince Alexander Nevsky with the Squad” was created by sculptor Vitaly Shanov and architect Konstantin Fomin. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)





Pallbearers carry out the coffin after a farewell ceremony for the late human rights activist and Russia’s first Human Rights Commissioner Sergei Kovalev at Moscow’s Sakharov Center in Moscow, Russia on August 13, 2021. (Photo by Mikhail Metzel/TASS)





A seal with plastic fishing net around its neck is caught by volunteers on Tyuleny Island off the eastern coast of Sakhalin in the Sea of Okhotsk in the Russian Far East on August 12, 2021. 64 sea lions were released from plastic fishing nets during an expedition by Sakhalin-based non-profit organisations, Bumergang (Boomerang) Club and Druzya Okeana (Friends of the Ocean). (Photo by Bumerang Club/TASS)





A woman holds a mirror as a teenager tries on school uniform at a back-to-school fair in Trenev Park in the city of Simferopol, Crimea on August 17, 2021. (Photo by Sergei Malgavko/TASS)





People walk in Zaryadye park in front of the Kremlin's Spasskaya tower during the sunset in downtown Moscow on August 19, 2021. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Photo)





A man holds a Russian flag during the 30th anniversary of the failed August 1991 coup outside the Russian Government building in Moscow on August 19, 2021. Russia marks on August 19-22, 2021, the 30th anniversary of the abortive 1991 coup against then Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. Tanks rolled through Moscow towards the Russian White House, where Boris Yeltsin, leader of the Soviet-era Russian republic at the time, gathered his supporters after denouncing the coup from the roof of a tank, what resulted later a collapse of the Soviet empire. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)





Journalists work in a news room of the Dozhd (Rain) TV channel in Moscow, Russia, Friday, August 20, 2021. Russian authorities have designated a top independent TV channel as a “foreign agent”, intensifying pressure on critical media ahead of next month's parliamentary election. The Justice Ministry announced Friday that the Dozhd (Rain) TV channel and the Vazhnye Istorii (Importrant Stories) investigative online outlet have been added to the list of “foreign agents” along with seven of its journalists. (Photo by Denis Kaminev/AP Photo)





Police detain a journalist with the poster reads “Journalism Freedom”, during individual pickets in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, August 21, 2021. Russian police have detained several journalists who protested authorities' decision to label a top independent TV channel as a “foreign agent”. The journalists held individual pickets Saturday outside the main headquarters of the country's top domestic security agency, the FSB, on Moscow's Lubyanka Square. (Photo by Denis Kaminev/AP Photo)





Police detain a journalist with a poster that reads: “We will not stop being journalists” in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, August 21, 2021. (Photo by Denis Kaminev/AP Photo)





A journalist holds a poster that reads: “Journalism is not a crime” during a one-person picket in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021. (Photo by Denis Kaminev/AP Photo)





A full moon behind the Sobornaya, Moscow Cathedral Mosque in Moscow, on August 22, 2021. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Photo)





A worker cleans the windows and the facade of the an office building in the Moscow's International Business Centre (Moskva City) on August 23, 2021. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)





Russian honour guards look on after the opening ceremony of the International Military-Technical Forum “Army-2021” held in the Patriot Park, Kubinka, near Moscow, on August 23, 2021. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Photo)





A man looks at his phone while walking with his raven in downtown Moscow on August 24, 2021. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)





Members of Russia's Emergencies Ministry gather near a country house, which is on fire in a settlement affected by wildfires near the city of Kamensk-Uralsky in Sverdlovsk Region, Russia on August 25, 2021. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





Members of the Honor Guard of the Armed Forces of Belarus perform during the media preview of the “Spasskaya Tower” international military music festival in Red Square in Moscow, Russia on August 26, 2021. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Members of the Honor Guard of the Armed Forces of Belarus perform during the media preview of the “Spasskaya Tower” international military music festival in Red Square in Moscow, Russia on August 26, 2021. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





A volunteer works to extinguish a wildfire raging on the federal highway connecting Yekaterinburg and Perm, near the town of Revda in the Sverdlovsk Region, Russia on August 26, 2021. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





Myanmar T-72 battle tank competes in an individual race of the Tank Biathlon competition as part of the 7th International Army Games 2021 at the Alabino training ground, Moscow region, Russia, 27 August 2021. The 7th International Military-Technical Forum “Army-2021” is held from 22 August till 04 September 2021 at 23 military training grounds of 11 countries. Five thousand participants of 277 teams from 42 countries compete in 34 military contests. (Photo by Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA/EFE)