Russian President Vladimir Putin, accompanied by Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the Russian General Staff, arrives at the Kapustin Yar range near the city of Astrakhan to oversee the “Caucasus-2020” military exercises on September 25, 2020. (Photo by Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/AFP Photo)





A duck swims in a pond during an autumn day in the town of Chekhov, some 70 km outside Moscow, on September 28, 2020. (Photo by Yuri Kadobnov/AFP Photo)





A member of the Russian hydroflight team performs during the World Tourism Day celebration on the Neva River in St.Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, September 27, 2020. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A theater controller measures spectators' temperature at an entrance of Chekhov'v theater in the center of Moscow, Russia, Friday, September 25, 2020. Moscow authorities have issued a recommendation for the elderly to stay at home and for employers to allow as many people as possible to work remotely, following a rapid growth of the coronavirus caseload in the Russian capital. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A woman, wearing a face mask to protect against coronavirus enjoys a warm evening sitting at a street-side cafe in the center of Moscow, Russia, Friday, September 25, 2020. Moscow authorities have issued a recommendation for the elderly to stay at home and for employers to allow as many people as possible to work remotely, following a rapid growth of the coronavirus caseload in the Russian capital. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Couples take part in the 7th Sevastopol Grand Charity Officers' Ball held in Mikhailovskaya Coastal Battery Square to mark this year's 75th anniversary of the victory in World War II and Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky's 180th birth anniversary in Sevastopol, Russia on September 27, 2020. (Photo by Sergei Malgavko/TASS)





A picture shows spacesuits of members of the International Space Station (ISS) expedition 64, NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, during their final exam at the Gagarin Cosmonauts' Training Centre in Star City outside Moscow on September 23, 2020. The trio is preparing for the launch onboard the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft from the Russian-leased Kazakh Baikonur cosmodrome on October 14. (Photo by Andrey Shelepin/Russian Space Agency Roscosmos/AFP Photo)





A serviceman of Special Forces of the Volga Federal District's National Guard troops fights at the Bars training ground as part of qualification tests to earn the maroon beret in Tatarstan, Russia on October 1, 2020. (Photo by Yegor Aleyev/TASS)





A rocket launches from a S-300 missile system during the Caucasus-2020 military drills at the Ashuluk military base in Russia's Astrakhan region on September 22, 2020. (Photo by Russian Defense Ministry/TASS)





Members of Russia's National Guard take an examination to gain the right to wear the maroon beret, the symbol of their professional status, at a training ground outside the village of Yemelyanovo in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia on October 1, 2020. (Photo by Alexey Nasyrov/Reuters)





A Russian tank T-72B3 fires during the Kavkaz-2020 (The Caucasus 2020) military exercises at the range Raevsky in Krasnodar region, Russia, 23 September 2020. The Caucasus 2020 strategic command and staff exercise involving Russian Armed Forces and military troops from other countries take place from 21 to 26 September at the Russian internal ranges of the Southern Military District and in the waters of the Black and Caspian seas. (Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA/EFE)





Followers of “Vissarion the Teacher”, or “Jesus of Siberia”, Russian ex-traffic cop Sergei Torop sit on a bench in the remote village of Petropavlovka on August 17, 2009. For thousands of followers, Vissarion is no less than the second coming of Jesus of Nazareth, reincarnated 2,000 years after his crucifixion, deep in the Siberian wilderness. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)





Vissarion, who has proclaimed himself a new Christ, conducts a service during the “Holiday of Good Fruit” feast in the village of Obitel Rassveta (Cloister of Sunrise), some 640 km (398 miles) southeast of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia on August 18, 2010. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters/File Photo)





A follower of “Vissarion the Teacher”, or “Jesus of Siberia”, Russian ex-traffic cop Sergei Torop drives a horse in the remote village of Petropavlovka on August 17, 2009. For thousands of followers, Vissarion is no less than the second coming of Jesus of Nazareth, reincarnated 2,000 years after his crucifixion, deep in the Siberian wilderness. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)





Russia's President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with permanent members of the Russian Security Council via video link from Novo-Ogarevo residence in Moscow Region, Russia on October 1, 2020. (Photo by Alexei Druzhinin/Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/TASS)





Medical workers wearing protective gear helps a man, suspected of having coronavirus out of an ambulance at a hospital in Kommunarka, outside Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, September 29, 2020. Moscow authorities are extending school holidays by a week amid a surge of new coronavirus cases. Health officials on Tuesday reported over 8,000 new virus cases, with over 2,000 in Moscow, the highest daily number in the Russian capital since late May. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)





A migrant worker from Uzbekistan walks into a sunflower field near a tent camp in the Kinel district of Russia's Samara region on September 22, 2020. (Photo by Albert Dzen/TASS)





An emergency doctor wearing protective equipment transports a woman to a hospital for COVID-19 patients in St.Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, Septtmber 24, 2020. The number of daily new cases started to grow in late August in Russia, which has the fourth largest caseload in the world at 1.12 million infections. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A crew member looks through a window of Russia's nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika before leaving the port of Saint Petersburg on September 22, 2020 for its maiden voyage to its future home port of Murmansk in northwestern Russia where it is expected in two weeks after undergoing tests of its performance en route. Designed to transport liquefied natural gas from the Arctic, the 173 metres (570 feet) long and 15 metres high giant vessel is touted as the most powerful of its kind and a symbol of Moscow's Arctic ambitions. (Photo by Olga Maltseva/AFP Photo)





Young women dance a group dance at the Palace Square in St.Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, September 24, 2020. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)