This picture taken on July 27, 2021, shows the sunlight filtered through smoke from burning forests near the village of Magaras in the republic of Sakha, Siberia. Russia is plagued by widespread forest fires, with the Sakha-Yakutia region in Siberia being the worst affected. According to many scientists, Russia -- especially its Siberian and Arctic regions – is among the countries most exposed to climate change. The country has set numerous records in recent years and in June 2020 registered 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 degrees Fahrenheit) in the town of Verkhoyansk – the highest temperature recorded above the Arctic circle since measurements began. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)





Russian opposition activist Lyubov Sobol and close ally of Alexei Navalny, looks at photographers as she arrives at the court in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, August 3, 2021. A Russian court on Tuesday restricted Lyubov Sobol move for a year and a half after she was found guilty of violating the COVID-19 safety rules. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A plane is silhouetted behind Waning Gibbous moon in Moscow late on July 25, 2021. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Photo)





Iranian frigate “Sahand” of the Southern Fleet of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy takes part in the military parade during celebrations for Navy Day, in Kronshtadt outside St.Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, July 25, 2021. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, center, attend the Navy Day parade in St.Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, July 25, 2021. (Photo by Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP Photo)





Police at the scene at the apartment block, where Roman Dobrokhotov, the chief editor of The Insider lives, in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, July 28, 2021 . Police in Russia raided the home of the chief editor of an investigative media outlet that was recently designated as a “foreign agent”, the latest step by authorities to raise pressure on independent media ahead of the country's September parliamentary election. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A woman sits on a bench in front of a shop in Moscow, Russia, 27 July 2021. Russia is facing a third wave of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)





A couple rides a pedal boat as smoke from nearby forest fires hangs over the city of Yakutsk, in the republic of Sakha, Siberia, on July 27, 2021. Russia is plagued by widespread forest fires, with the Sakha-Yakutia region in Siberia being the worst affected. According to many scientists, Russia – especially its Siberian and Arctic regions – is among the countries most exposed to climate change. The country has set numerous records in recent years and in June 2020 registered 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 degrees Fahrenheit) in the town of Verkhoyansk – the highest temperature recorded above the Arctic circle since measurements began. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)





Hot-air balloons float over the Oka River during the Russian Sky International Balloon Festival in Ryazan Region, Russia on July 26, 2021. (Photo by Alexander Ryumin/TASS)





Ivan Fyodorov, 65, helps firefighters to control a five-kilometre long trench – that they dug with a tractor some days earlier – to prevent a wildfire from reaching their land in the Siberian region of Yakutia, at the edge of the village of Byas-Kyuel, on July 26, 2021. Fuelled by a June heatwave, wildfires have swept through more than 1.5 million hectares of Yakutia's swampy coniferous taiga with more than a month still to go in Siberia's annual fire season. It is the third straight year that Russia's coldest region – with a border on the Arctic ocean – has seen wildfires so vicious that they have nearly overwhelmed its Aerial Forest Protection Service. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)





A local resident operates a tractor while harvesting hay in the village of Bobrovka in Omsk Region, Russia on July 22, 2021. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





A woman stands by a ruined house in Tver Region, Russia on August 3, 2021. Yesterday evening a thunderstorm with a fierce wind of up to 25 m/s hit the Tver Region affecting the town of Andreapol and the Ostashkovsky Municipal District, killing 3 people and injuring 8. Power lines and 65 houses have been damaged. (Photo by Nash Put Newspaper of the Velikoluksky District/TASS)





An athlete uses a fire extinguisher as he takes part in a relay event during the Fire and Rescue Championship held by the Russian Emergencies Ministry at Lokomotiv Stadium in Yekaterinburg, Russia on July 25, 2021. (Photo by Donat Sorokin/TASS)





Artists perform for farmers during their break in harvest with their combines in the background in a wheat field near the village Tbilisskaya, Russia, Wednesday, July 21, 2021. Russia's Agricultural Ministry expects this year's grain harvest at 127 million metric tons. (Photo by Vitaly Timkiv/AP Photo)





Young girls pose for a selfie picture on Red Square next to St. Basil's cathedral in Moscow, on July 21, 2021. (Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP Photo)





Gardeners work to arrange flowers on a flower bed in Russian flag colors at the Poklonnaya hill in Moscow, Russia 27 July 2021. (Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA/EFE)





A member of volunteers crew mops up spot fires at Gorny Ulus area west of Yakutsk, Russia, Thursday, July 22, 2021. The hardest hit area is the Sakha Republic, also known as Yakutia, in the far northeast of Russia, about 5,000 kilometers (3,200 miles) from Moscow. About 85% of all of Russia's fires are in the republic, and heavy smoke forced a temporary closure of the airport in the regional capital of Yakutsk, a city of about 280,000 people. (Photo by Ivan Nikiforov/AP Photo)





A Russian former paratrooper scares the ducks in the fountain as they celebrate the Paratroopers Day at the Gorky Park in Moscow, Russia, 02 August 2021. The paratroopers' holiday, which is a professional holiday of active and military personnel of the reserve of the Airborne Forces, is traditionally celebrated annually throughout Russia, Belarus and other CIS countries. Airborne troops were formed 91 years ago on 02 August 1930. (Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA/EFE)





A boy wearing a face mask amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic runs in Zaryadye park in front of the Kremlin's Spasskaya tower during light rain in Moscow on July 21, 2021. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Photo)





People steer their paddle-boards along a channel during a SUP (Stand Up Paddle)-Surfing festival in St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, July 31, 2021. Thousands of costumed participants of a standup paddle-boarding festival will get together to go nine Kilometres (5,6 miles) along central rivers and canals of St Petersburg, passing by major tourist sites and competing in fun categories such as The Best SUP Board Design or The Most Original Costume made of Recycled Materials. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





People gather to steer their paddle-boards along a channel during a SUP (Stand Up Paddle)-Surfing festival in St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, July 31, 2021. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)