A woman wearing a face mask to protect against coronavirus infection casts her ballot at a poling station during Leningrad region's governor and municipal elections in Luppolovo village, outside St.Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, September 13, 2020. Leningrad region is the territory surrounding St. Petersburg. The elections are held to choose governors and legislators in about half of Russia's regions. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





People dance near a poling station during Leningrad region's governor and municipal elections, in Luppolovo village, outside St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, September 13, 2020. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Members of the election commission wearing face masks to protect against coronavirus infection, look at a voterat a poling station during Leningrad region's governor and municipal elections in Luppolovo village, outside St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, September 13, 2020. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





In this August 2020 photo provided by Alexei Navalny's team, Ksenia Fadeyeva, who is running for the city council in Tomsk, Russia, poses for a photo next to her election poster. Fadeyeva has secured a seat in the city council, according to preliminary results of the regional election that took place on Sunday, September 13, 2020. (Photo by Andrei Fateyev/Alexei Navalny's team via AP Photo)





A staff member of a local branch of Russian Communist party washes a huge monument to Vladimir Lenin in front the party's local office in Novosibirsk on September 9, 2020. Communist candidate Renat Suleimanov goes for September 13 regional elections. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)





Enthusiasts participate in the historical re-enactment of the Sevastopol Fortress assault, which took place during the Crimean War of 1853-1856, at a military historical festival in Sevastopol, Crimea, September 5, 2020. (Photo by Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters)





A teacher measures students' temperature before the start of classes in a school, with the chemical protection suits in the background at a school in Moscow, Russia, Monday, September 7, 2020. Russian schools, which switched to online classes in late March when the coronavirus pandemic swept the country, have reopened this month. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)





Children ride a kick scooter and a bicycle during the opening of the Uram extreme park as part of a celebration of Kazan City Day and Tatarstan Republic Day in Kazan, Russia on August 30, 2020. (Photo by Yegor Aleyev/TASS)





T-72 B3 tanks operated by crews from Russia and Uzbekistan drive during the Tank Biathlon competition at the International Army Games 2020 in Alabino, outside Moscow, Russia on September 2, 2020. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





A T-72 B3 tank operated by a crew from Russia jumps during the Tank Biathlon competition at the International Army Games 2020 in Alabino, outside Moscow, Russia on September 2, 2020. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Russian servicemen rest during the Tank Biathlon competition at the International Army Games 2020 in Alabino, outside Moscow, Russia September 2, 2020. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





First graders attend a ceremony marking the start of the new school year, as schools reopen after the summer break and the lockdown due to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Moscow, Russia on September 1, 2020. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)





People watch a drone light show dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two in the center of Saint Petersburg on September 3, 2020. (Photo by Olga Maltseva/AFP Photo)





Fireworks explode over the Cathedral of Russian Armed Forces during the Spasskaya Tower military music festival in Kubinka, outside Moscow, Russia, Sunday, September 6, 2020. Due to coronavirus, the annual international music festival in Red Square was canceled, an online festival without spectators took place Sunday on the Cathedral Square in Patriot Park, outside Moscow. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)





The Peaceful Sky: Drone Record Show takes place over St Petersburg, Russia on September 3, 2020, marking the end of WWII. According to the organisers, a large-scale drone light show will break the world record and will be included into the Russian Book of Records. (Photo by Peter Kovalev/TASS)





People watch a light show “Peaceful sky-drone show” dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in the center of St. Petersburg, Russia, 03 September 2020. Around 2000 glowing drones show figures reaching 600 meters in their size. (Photo by Anatoly Maltsev/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Local people collect shellfish and items washed onto Shamora Beach by high waves caused by Typhoon Maysak on the shore of Lazurnaya Bay in the city of Vladivostok, on Russia's Pacific coast on September 4, 2020. (Photo by Yuri Smityuk/TASS via Getty Images)





Passengers at Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow Region, Russia on September 9, 2020. Russia resumes flights to Egypt suspended earlier to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Aeroflot - Russian Airlines schedules Moscow-Cairo flights three times a week. (Photo by Sergei Bobylev/TASS)





Visitors at the 8th Cosmoscow International Fair at Gostinny Dvor in Moscow, Russia on September 10, 2020. Cosmoscow is an annual art festival and exhibition of works by contemporary artists. (Photo by Sergei Karpukhin/TASS)





An employee of the Leader center for high risk rescue operations of the Russian Emergencies Ministry disinfects a waiting area at the Leningradsky railway station amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in Moscow, Russia on September 3, 2020. (Photo by Maxim Grigoryev/TASS via Getty Images)