People watch as 99,000 balloons are released from a giant heart-shaped net during Valentine's Day celebrations at the Riviera shopping mall in Moscow, Russia on February 14, 2025. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





A man dressed as Batman holds a rose in his mouth as he poses for photographers during Valentine's Day celebrations at the Riviera shopping mall in Moscow, Russia on February 14, 2025. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





People watch as 99,000 balloons are released from a giant heart-shaped net during Valentine's Day celebrations at the Riviera shopping mall in Moscow, Russia on February 14, 2025. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





People lay flowers at the grave of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny at the Borisovo cemetery in Moscow on February 16, 2025, marking the first anniversary of his death in an Arctic colony under murky circumstances. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)





Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's parents Anatoly and Lyudmila, accompanied by Alla Abrosimova, who is the mother of Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya, come to Navalny's grave to mark the first anniversary of his death at a cemetery in Moscow, Russia, on February 16, 2025. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)





A woman bathes in an ice hole in the Neva River, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, February 19, 2025. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A woman walks amidst Russian state flags installed in a square in central Moscow, Russia, on February 24, 2025. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)





A child plays among ice hummocks on the frozen Taganrog Bay of the Sea of Azov, in the southern port city of Taganrog in the Rostov Region, Russia on February 26, 2025. (Photo by Sergey Pivovarov/Reuters)





Spectators watch the windmill-shaped wooden construction by Russian artist Nikolay Polissky, burning as part of celebrations of the Maslenitsa (Shrovetide) at the Nikola-Lenivets art park, in Nikola-Lenivets village, Kaluga region, Russia, Saturday, March 1, 2025. (Photo by Pavel Bednyakov/AP Photo)





A spectator, dressed as a fairy goat, poses for a photo at the windmill-shaped wooden construction by Russian artist Nikolay Polissky during celebrations of the Maslenitsa (Shrovetide) at the Nikola-Lenivets art park in Nikola-Lenivets village, Kaluga region, Russia, Saturday, March 1, 2025. (Photo by Pavel Bednyakov/AP Photo)





Myanmar's military chief Min Aung Hlaing attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin Wall in Moscow on March 4, 2025. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool via AFP Photo)





A man carries bunches of flowers purchased from a flower market on International Women's Day during a sunny morning in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, March 8, 2025. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Two men carrie a basket of flowers purchased from the flower market as a woman makes a selfie on the eve of an International Women's Day, in Moscow, Russia, on Friday, March 7, 2025. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A man carries bunches of flowers purchased from a flower market on International Women's Day during a sunny morning in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, March 8, 2025. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A person wearing a fancy costume depicting an animated character poses for a picture at a metro station during celebrations of International Women's Day in Moscow, Russia, on March 8, 2025. (Photo by Yulia Morozova/Reuters)





Investigators look at the damage of an apartment building where the downed Ukrainian drone fell in Sapronovo village outside Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Photo by AP Photo)





Police officers stand on the roof of a multi-storey residential building damaged in a recent Ukrainian drone attack, according to local authorities, in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict, in Moscow, Russia on March 11, 2025. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A police officer patrols an area as people gather near an apartment building where a downed Ukrainian drone fell in Sapronovo village outside Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Photo by AP Photo)





Russian journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova, who was detained in May 2024 on allegations of “justifying terrorism”, stands inside an enclosure for defendants while waiting for the verdict announcement during a court hearing in Moscow, Russia, on March 12, 2025. (Photo by Yulia Morozova/Reuters)





Russian President Vladimir Putin walks past an honor guard prior to a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 13, 2025. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Pool Photo via AP Photo)