A Look at Life in Russia

A sparrow sits at a barrel of an anti-aircraft gun model displayed at a World War II memorial, where it made a nest, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, May 16, 2023. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)

Members of a military-patriotic movement attend a demonstration lesson that is part of an extracurricular educational program, which involves weapon training, first aid treatment, camping skills and other courses, in Sevastopol, Crimea on May 19, 2023. (Photo by Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters)

A member of a Russian military-patriotic movement attends a demonstration lesson that is part of an extracurricular educational program, which involves weapon training, first aid treatment, camping skills and other courses, in Sevastopol, Crimea on May 19, 2023. (Photo by Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters)

Members of Russia's Youth Army military-patriotic movement attend a demonstration lesson that is part of an extracurricular educational program, which involves weapon training, first aid treatment, camping skills and other courses, in Sevastopol, Crimea on May 19, 2023. (Photo by Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters)

Members of Russia's Youth Army military-patriotic movement wear gas masks during a demonstration lesson that is part of an extracurricular educational program, which involves weapon training, first aid treatment, camping skills and other courses, in Sevastopol, Crimea on May 19, 2023. (Photo by Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters)

Participants hold flags during a demonstration lesson that is part of an extracurricular military-patriotic program, which involves weapon training, first aid treatment, camping skills and other courses, in Sevastopol, Crimea on May 19, 2023. (Photo by Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters)

Yevgeny Roizman, former mayor of Russia's fourth-largest city, sits in a courtroom in Yekaterinburg, Russia, Friday, May 19, 2023. Roizman, the former mayor of Yekaterinburg and one of Russia's most visible and charismatic opposition figures, stood trial for discrediting the military, a charge that could bring a prison sentence. But the prosecutor on Thursday called for him to be fined 260,000 rubles ($3250), suggesting he could avoid prison time. (Photo by Vladimir Podoksyonov/AP Photo)

A woman has her picture taken in front of a portrait of the Russian President Vladimir Putin during a book fair on the Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square in St. Petersburg, Russia, 19 May 2023. (Photo by Anatoly Maltsev/EPA/EFE)

Participants dance during a ceremony to accept new members into the Young Pioneer Organization, in Red Square in central Moscow, Russia on May 21, 2023. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)

Russian cyclists attend the Moscow Spring Bicycle Festival in Moscow, Russia, 21 May 2023. The Moscow Spring Bicycle Festival is the largest celebration in support of the development of cycling culture in Russia, in which about 100,000 people participate annually. Route length 16 km. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA)

Yekaterina Maksimova enters a Moscow subway station in Moscow, Russia, Monday, May 22, 2023. The journalist and activist has been detained five times in the past year, thanks to the system's pervasive security cameras with facial recognition. She says police would tell her the cameras “reacted” to her – although they often seemed not to understand why, and would let her go after a few hours. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)

A combo of Russian national newspapers on Monday, May 22, 2023, all leading with news on the taking of control of the city of Bakhmut, after the longest and most grinding battle, in Moscow, Russia, Monday, May 22, 2023. Russia claims it has won control of Ukraine's eastern city of Bakhmut after a nine-month conflict in which tens of thousands of fighters have died. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)

A Russian conscript kisses his partner during a send-off event before they head to assigned military units for mandatory one-year military service, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to enroll 147,000 conscripts aged 18-27 into the army during spring draft. Those drafted will do one year of mandatory military service. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)

People visit Russian patriotic artist Vasily Nesterenko's exhibition called “We are Russians, God is with us” in Moscow on May 23, 2023. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Photo)

Volunteers of the National Center for Assistance to Missing and Injured Children take part in an action dedicated to the International Missing Children's Day at the Victory Park memorial complex on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow, Russia, 25 May 2023. The Russian police is closely cooperating with volunteer organizations specializing in the search for missing persons, with the participation of volunteers. More than six thousand minors were found last year, said Head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Russian Interior Ministry Maxim Chernysh. (Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA)

A worker washes a city landmark, the equestrian statue of Peter the Great known as the Bronze Horseman by French sculptor Etienne Maurice Falconet, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, May 26, 2023. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)

In this image taken from video, investigators inspect the building after a Ukrainian drone damaged an apartment building in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, May 30, 2023. In Moscow, residents reported hearing explosions and Mayor Sergei Sobyanin later confirmed there had been a drone attack that he said caused “insignificant” damage. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)

Police officers guard an area where a Ukrainian drone damaged an apartment building in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, May 30, 2023. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)

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