A participant walks a dachshund during a dachshund parade festival in Saint Petersburg, Russia on September 16, 2023. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





A dachshund walks a podium during a dachshund parade festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, September 16, 2023. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A woman walks a podium with her dachshund dressed as a musician during a dachshund parade festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, September 16, 2023. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A family wearing ballet costumes stand at a podium with their dachshund during a dachshund parade festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, September 16, 2023. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A woman stands at a podium with her dachshund during a dachshund parade festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, September 16, 2023. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A woman walks a podium with her dachshund during a dachshund parade festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, September 16, 2023. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A woman holds her dachshund wearing a Russian traditional women's headdress during a dachshund parade festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, September 16, 2023. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A woman walks a podium with her dachshund during a dachshund parade festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, September 16, 2023. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Workers carry a baloon after a dachshund parade festival in Saint Petersburg, Russia on September 16, 2023. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





This picture taken on September 17, 2023 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on September 18, 2023 shows North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (C-seated front row) attending a walrus show at the Primorsky Regional Aquarium in Vladivostok, Primorsky region. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un left Russia on September 17 after a rare six-day visit that appeared to solidify his country's ties with President Vladimir Putin, fanning Western fears that Pyongyang could provide Moscow with weapons for its assault on Ukraine. (Photo by KCNA via KNS/AFP Photo)





A law enforcement officer looks on as runners take part in the annual Moscow Marathon in the centre of Moscow on September 17, 2023. (Photo by Handout/Moskva News Agency via AFP Photo)





A fisherman prepares his fishing rod during sunset on a beach in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, on Monday, September 18, 2023. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A man straightens a flag of the Wagner private military contractor at the grave of Yevgeny Prigozhin at Porokhovskoye Cemetery in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. Prigozhin, the head of Wagner, was killed on August 23 when a private jet carrying him and his top lieutenants crashed while flying from Moscow to St. Petersburg, killing all 10 people aboard. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A one-month-old female giant panda cub lies in an incubator at the Moscow Zoo in the capital Moscow, Russia, in this picture released September 25, 2023. The cub's parents, female giant panda Ding Ding and male giant panda Ru Yi, were lent by China to the Moscow Zoo in 2019 for 15 years as part of a joint research project. (Photo by Moscow Zoo/Handout via Reuters)





A screen shows jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny as he arrives to listen to a hearing on an appeal lodged against a court decision to jail him for 19 years in a maximum security prison on extremism-linked charges, at a court in Moscow on September 26, 2023. Navalny was Russia's loudest opposition voice over the last decade and galvanised huge anti-government rallies before he was jailed in 2021 on fraud charges that his allies at home and abroad said were punitive. (Photo by Tatyana Makeyeva/AFP Photo)





Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit pose for a photo prior to their talks at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, September 28, 2023. (Photo by Vladimir Astapkovich, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP Photo)





From left: Russian servicemen Cpl. Alexei Ivliev, awarded with the Order of Courage and Hero of the Russian Federation, Pvt. Ivan Kalashnikov and Pvt. Vyacheslav Tarasov, awarded with the Order of Courage, all of them participants of Russian special military operation, attend a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, September 29, 2023. (Photo by Pavel Bednyakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP Photo)





Ethnic Armenians walk past the Armenian Cathedral of Moscow, officially known as Holy Transfiguration Cathedral, the tallest Armenian church in the world and the largest one outside Armenia, on October 4, 2023. Armenian lawmakers approved a key step towards joining the International Criminal Court (ICC), a move that was expected to escalate tensions with the ex-Soviet country's traditional ally Moscow. Tensions have also been rising between Yerevan and Moscow over the role of Russian peacekeepers in the self-proclaimed republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, which announced its dissolution last week following the lightning military operation by Baku. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)





People march with flowers and portraits of those who were killed during the 1993 bloody clashes between government forces and supporters of the rebellious parliament during a rally marking the 30th anniversary of the events in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, October 4, 2023. The authorities said that 124 people died in the clashes on Oct. 3-4, 1993, but unofficial estimates suggested a higher death toll. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A woman takes a selfie photo by the “Friendship of Nations” fountain at the All-Russia Exhibition Centre (VDNKh) in Moscow on October 5, 2023. The fountain was installed at the All-Russia Exhibition Centre (VDNKh), a trade show and amusement park, in 1954, with 16 gilded bronze sculptures of young women representing 16 republics of the USSR around the oval fountain bowl featuring a wheat sheaf. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)