A newlywed couple kisses on the stairs of Andreyevsky Bridge in Moscow on July 7, 2020, amid the outbreak of COVID-19, caused by the novel coronavirus. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)





Irina, right, and Anastasia Lagutenko play with their son, Dorian, at a playground in St. Petersburg, Russia, July 2, 2020. Their 2017 wedding wasn’t legally recognized in Russia. Any hopes they could someday officially be married in their homeland vanished July 1 when voters approved a package of constitutional amendments, one of which stipulates that marriage in Russia is only between a man and a woman. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A governor of the Khabarovsk region along the border with China, Sergei Furgal, right, is escorted from a court room in Moscow, Russia, Friday, July 10, 2020. A provincial governor in Russia's far east has been arrested on charges of involvement in multiple murders and was flown to Moscow. The court ordered Frugal to be jailed for two months as the investigation continues. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





People hold up posters with portraits of Sergei Furgal during an unsanctioned protest in Khabarovsk, 6100 kilometers (3800 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Saturday, July 11, 2020. Thousands of demonstrators in the Russian Far East city of Khabarovsk held a protest against the arrest of the region's governor on charges of involvement in multiple murders. (Photo by Igor Volkov/AP Photo)





A believer kisses an icon by a memorial cross at the Ganina Yama Monastery after a religious procession in memory of the Russian royal family from the Church of All Saints in Yekaterinburg to the Ganina Yama Monastery in the Sverdlovsk Region, Russia on July 17, 2020. Emperor Nicholas II of Russia and his family were executed on July 17, 1918. Their remains were thrown into a pit at the Ganina Yama. (Photo by Donat Sorokin/TASS)





The moon is seen over the Kul-Sharif Mosque lit at night in the Kazan Kremlin, in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia on July 12, 2020. (Photo by Yegor Aleyev/TASS)





People dance outside their cars during a drive-in concert by The Hatters gypsy folk rock band in Luzhniki, Moscow, Russia on July 4, 2020. The concert, in which the sound is broadcast to the cars via FM radio, is part of LIVE&DRIVE, a series of live drive-in concerts organised by the TCI concert agency and SAV Entertainment Group during the pandemic of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (Photo by Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS)





A woman takes part in an outdoor dance class at the VDNKh exhibition centre in Moscow, Russia on July 4, 2020. (Photo by ITAR-Tass News Agency/Alamy Live News)





People attend a master class in Latin American dances on the deck outside No 84 Pavilion in VDNKh Exhibition Centre in Moscow, Russia on July 4, 2020. The event opens this year's season of outdoor dancing in VDNKh. (Photo by Artyom Geodakyan/TASS)





Police officers detain a protester during a rally to support Ivan Safronov near the Lefortovo prison in Moscow, Russia, Monday, July 13, 2020. Safronov, an ex-journalist who worked as an adviser to the director of Russia's state space corporation has been arrested and jailed on charges of passing military secrets to Czech intelligence. Ivan Safronov wrote about military and security issues before becoming an adviser to the head of Roscosmos. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A detained supporter of Ivan Safronov, a former journalist and aide to the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, looks out from inside a police bus in central Moscow on July 7, 2020. A high-profile Russian journalist who became an advisor to the head of the space agency was detained on July 7, 2020 on charges of treason for divulging state military secrets, authorities said. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)





Comet NEOWISE streaks across the night sky over the Epiphany Church of the Transfiguration Monastery in Ryazan, Russia on July 13, 2020. The retrograde comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) was discovered on March 27, 2020, using the NEOWISE infrared space telescope. (Photo by Alexander Ryumin/TASS)





Law enforcement officers detain a participant of a protest against amendments to Russia's constitution and the results of a nationwide vote on constitutional reforms, in Moscow, Russia on July 15, 2020. Dozens of people were arrested at a protest in Moscow against constitutional reforms that give President Vladimir Putin the option to remain in power for another 16 years, witnesses and a monitoring group said. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)





A demonstrator takes part in a protest against amendments to Russia's Constitution and the results of a nationwide vote on constitutional reforms, in Saint Petersburg, Russia on July 15, 2020. The placard reads: “No to eternal Putin”. Mass gatherings are banned in the capital because of COVID-19 restrictions. Even in normal times, protests of more than one person require the authorities' advance consent. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





Employees of the Siberian rescue center of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry are seen by a plane in Novosibirsk Region, Russia on June 4, 2020. The rescuers are sent to Norilsk to clean up a fuel spill. On May 29, a diesel fuel reservoir at Norilsk's Combined Heat and Power Plant No 3 collapsed and nearly 21 thousand cubic meters of fuel spilled into a river. (Photo by Russian Emergency Situations Ministry/TASS)





A dead fish is seen on the shore of the Ambarnaya River outside Norilsk on June 10, 2020. Russian investigators on June 10, 2020 detained three staff at a power plant where thousands of tonnes of diesel leaked into the soil and waterways of the Arctic region. The spill of over 21,000 tonnes of fuel, which environmentalists say is the largest ever in the Arctic, took place after a fuel reservoir collapsed at a power plant operated by a subsidiary of metals giant Norilsk Nickel in the city of Norilsk beyond the Arctic Circle. (Photo by Irina Yarinskaya/AFP Photo)





Employees of Russia's state-owned oil pipeline monopoly Transneft take part in a clean-up operation following a massive fuel spill in the Ambarnaya River outside Norilsk on June 10, 2020. (Photo by Irina Yarinskaya/AFP Photo)





The full moon is pictured behind the sculpture of “Worker and Kolkhoz Woman” in Moscow on July 6, 2020. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Photo)





A municipal worker cleans along an embankment of the Moika river in downtown Saint Petersburg on July 14, 2020, amid the outbreak of COVID-19, caused by the novel coronavirus. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)





A man pushes a bicycle through the water as he returns after mowing a field in the town of Cherdyn in Perm Region, Russia on July 12, 2020. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)