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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the Orthodox Christmas mass at Saint Nikolai Church on Lipno Island in the Msta River delta, outside Veliky Novgorod, on January 7, 2021. Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on January 7 in the Middle East, Russia and other Orthodox churches that use the old Julian calendar instead of the 17th-century Gregorian calendar adopted by Catholics, Protestants, Greek Orthodox and commonly used in secular life around the world. (Photo by Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/AFP Photo)

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the Orthodox Christmas mass at Saint Nikolai Church on Lipno Island in the Msta River delta, outside Veliky Novgorod, on January 7, 2021. Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on January 7 in the Middle East, Russia and other Orthodox churches that use the old Julian calendar instead of the 17th-century Gregorian calendar adopted by Catholics, Protestants, Greek Orthodox and commonly used in secular life around the world. (Photo by Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/AFP Photo)



In this photo released by Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service, firefighters work at the site of fire at a nursing home in the town of Borovsky, western Siberia, Russia, Saturday, January 9, 2021. Russian authorities say seven people have died in the fire at a nursing home in western Siberia. The fire that broke out Saturday at the private home for the elderly also injured a resident, according to Russia's top criminal investigation agency. (Photo by Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations press service via AP Photo)

In this photo released by Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service, firefighters work at the site of fire at a nursing home in the town of Borovsky, western Siberia, Russia, Saturday, January 9, 2021. Russian authorities say seven people have died in the fire at a nursing home in western Siberia. The fire that broke out Saturday at the private home for the elderly also injured a resident, according to Russia's top criminal investigation agency. (Photo by Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations press service via AP Photo)



People walk on the floating bridge at the Zaryadye park next to the Spasskaya tower of the Moscow Kremlin and the St. Basil Cath​edral during a snowfall day in Moscow, Russia, 02 January 2021. (Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA/EFE)

People walk on the floating bridge at the Zaryadye park next to the Spasskaya tower of the Moscow Kremlin and the St. Basil Cath​edral during a snowfall day in Moscow, Russia, 02 January 2021. (Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA/EFE)



A man bathes in an ice hole in the Neva River in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, January 13, 2021. The temperature in St. Petersburg is –15C ( 5 °F). (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)

A man bathes in an ice hole in the Neva River in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, January 13, 2021. The temperature in St. Petersburg is –15C ( 5 °F). (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)



A woman wearing a face mask to protect against coronavirus walks at a train station in Moscow, Russia, Monday, January 11, 2021. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)

A woman wearing a face mask to protect against coronavirus walks at a train station in Moscow, Russia, Monday, January 11, 2021. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)



A student of the I Love Supersport sports school takes part in the 2021 Run of Promises in Mikhailovskaya Naberezhnaya Street in Novosibirsk, Russia on January 1, 2021. Every year, on 1 January, people across the world rally around the I Love Running flag and take part in a running race with a bib or piece of paper with their personal promise (resolution) written on it. (Photo by Kirill Kukhmar/TASS)

A student of the I Love Supersport sports school takes part in the 2021 Run of Promises in Mikhailovskaya Naberezhnaya Street in Novosibirsk, Russia on January 1, 2021. Every year, on 1 January, people across the world rally around the I Love Running flag and take part in a running race with a bib or piece of paper with their personal promise (resolution) written on it. (Photo by Kirill Kukhmar/TASS)



Passengers of a party bus celebrate New Year after driving through Moscow, Russia, Friday, January 1, 2021. While restaurants and other entertainment venues close its doors across the country at 23:00, Muscovites look for ways to bend the coronavirus restrictions. One of them is a party bus whose owners offer to spend the New Year night touring around the city and having drinks with other strangers. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr./AP Photo)

Passengers of a party bus celebrate New Year after driving through Moscow, Russia, Friday, January 1, 2021. While restaurants and other entertainment venues close its doors across the country at 23:00, Muscovites look for ways to bend the coronavirus restrictions. One of them is a party bus whose owners offer to spend the New Year night touring around the city and having drinks with other strangers. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr./AP Photo)



SUP_Novosibirsk stand up paddle boarding club founder Yevgeny Popov in a Santa Claus costume SUP surfs on a confluent of the Ob River in Novosibirsk, Russia on December 27, 2020. (Photo by Kirill Kukhmar/TASS)

SUP_Novosibirsk stand up paddle boarding club founder Yevgeny Popov in a Santa Claus costume SUP surfs on a confluent of the Ob River in Novosibirsk, Russia on December 27, 2020. (Photo by Kirill Kukhmar/TASS)



Fireworks explode over apartment blocks during New Year's Day celebrations in Omsk, Russia on January 1, 2021. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)

Fireworks explode over apartment blocks during New Year's Day celebrations in Omsk, Russia on January 1, 2021. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)



A Christmas tree against the background of the Grozny City towers and the Akhmad Kadyrov Mosque (Heart of Chechnya) in Grozny, Russia on December 28, 2020. (Photo by Yelena Afonina/TASS)

A Christmas tree against the background of the Grozny City towers and the Akhmad Kadyrov Mosque (Heart of Chechnya) in Grozny, Russia on December 28, 2020. (Photo by Yelena Afonina/TASS)



Fireworks explode behind the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower near St. Basil's Cathedral during New Year's Day celebrations in Moscow, Russia on January 1, 2021. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)

Fireworks explode behind the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower near St. Basil's Cathedral during New Year's Day celebrations in Moscow, Russia on January 1, 2021. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)



People walk in a park near chimneys of a heating power plant on a cold winter day in Moscow, Russia on January 12, 2021. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)

People walk in a park near chimneys of a heating power plant on a cold winter day in Moscow, Russia on January 12, 2021. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)



Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia conducts the Orthodox Christmas service at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, Russia, January 6, 2021. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia conducts the Orthodox Christmas service at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, Russia, January 6, 2021. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)



Russian Emergency ministry rescuers work at the avalanche site in the town of Talnakh, 25 kilometres (16 miles) north of Norilsk on January 9, 2021. Three people were killed after an avalanche swept through a ski resort outside the Arctic city of Norilsk overnight, Russian investigators said on January 9, 2020. The Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes, said it was notified at 00:30 local time (1730 GMT) that an avalanche had buried four buildings under snow at the Otdelnaya Gora ski complex in the town of Talnakh, 25 kilometres (16 miles) north of Norilsk. (Photo by Irina Yarinskaya/AFP Photo)

Russian Emergency ministry rescuers work at the avalanche site in the town of Talnakh, 25 kilometres (16 miles) north of Norilsk on January 9, 2021. Three people were killed after an avalanche swept through a ski resort outside the Arctic city of Norilsk overnight, Russian investigators said on January 9, 2020. The Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes, said it was notified at 00:30 local time (1730 GMT) that an avalanche had buried four buildings under snow at the Otdelnaya Gora ski complex in the town of Talnakh, 25 kilometres (16 miles) north of Norilsk. (Photo by Irina Yarinskaya/AFP Photo)



People sit at a decoration installed for the upcoming New Year and Christmas holiday season in Zaryadye Park in Moscow, Russia on December 30, 2020. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)

People sit at a decoration installed for the upcoming New Year and Christmas holiday season in Zaryadye Park in Moscow, Russia on December 30, 2020. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)



Homeless women speaks to each other in their hut on the street in center of Moscow, Russia, 11 January 2021 during the pandemic of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)

Homeless women speaks to each other in their hut on the street in center of Moscow, Russia, 11 January 2021 during the pandemic of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)



A child sits in a shopping trolley while his parents shop in a store in Moscow on December 28, 2020, amid the crisis linked with the Covid-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus. Russia confirmed 27,787 new daily Covid-19 cases including 6,253 in Moscow. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP)

A child sits in a shopping trolley while his parents shop in a store in Moscow on December 28, 2020, amid the crisis linked with the Covid-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus. Russia confirmed 27,787 new daily Covid-19 cases including 6,253 in Moscow. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP)



A bicyclist performs a trick on an embankment near an inflatable figure depicting Ded Moroz, the Russian equivalent of Santa Claus, ahead of the New Year and Christmas holiday season in the Black Sea resort of Alushta, Crimea on December 28, 2020. (Photo by Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters)

A bicyclist performs a trick on an embankment near an inflatable figure depicting Ded Moroz, the Russian equivalent of Santa Claus, ahead of the New Year and Christmas holiday season in the Black Sea resort of Alushta, Crimea on December 28, 2020. (Photo by Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters)



People attend New Year celebrations in 1905 Goda Square in Yekaterinburg, Russia on January 1, 2021. (Photo by Donat Sorokin/TASS)

People attend New Year celebrations in 1905 Goda Square in Yekaterinburg, Russia on January 1, 2021. (Photo by Donat Sorokin/TASS)



Russian people wearing protective face masks walks during pandemic of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in Moscow, Russia, 28 December 2020. According to official information, in the past 24 hours Russia registered 27787 new cases caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)

Russian people wearing protective face masks walks during pandemic of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in Moscow, Russia, 28 December 2020. According to official information, in the past 24 hours Russia registered 27787 new cases caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)
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