Anastasia Shevchenko, wearing a face mask to protect prevent the spread of coronavirus, attends a court hearing in a courtroom in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Thursday, February 18, 2021. Shevchenko, a member of the Open Russia opposition movement, is the first political activist in Russia prosecuted for participating in an “undesirable organization”, a criminal charge punishable by up to six years in prison. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A woman walks on a street in Moscow, Russia 19 February 2021. The temperatures in Moscow dropped to minus 18 degrees Celsius. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)





Supporters of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who was recently jailed for parole violations, pose for a picture while shining their mobile phone torches in a residential courtyard during a gathering on Valentine's Day outside Saint Petersburg, Russia on February 14, 2021. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





Supporters of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who was recently jailed for parole violations, light candles in a residential courtyard during a gathering on Valentine's Day in Omsk, Russia on February 14, 2021. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





Supporters of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who was recently jailed for parole violations, shine their mobile phone torches after arranging candles in the shape of a heart in a residential courtyard during a gathering on Valentine's Day in Omsk, Russia on February 14, 2021. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





People turn on the flashlights of their mobile phones during Valentine Day's flashmobs in support of jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny in Saint Petersburg on February 14, 2021. Navalny's arrest on arrival back in Russia last month sparked nationwide protests that saw more than 10,000 people detained and led to allegations of police abuse. (Photo by Olga Maltseva/AFP Photo)





People shine their cellphone flashlights in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his wife Yulia Navalnaya walking on the ice of Neva River in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, February 14, 2021. When the team of jailed Russia opposition leader Alexei Navalny announced a protest in a new format, urging people to come out to their residential courtyards on Sunday and shine their cellphone flashlights, many responded with jokes and skepticism. After two weekends of nationwide demonstrations, the new protest format looked to some like a retreat. But not to Russian authorities, who moved vigorously to extinguish the illuminated protests planned for Sunday. (Photo by Valentin Egorshin/AP Photo)





Supporters of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who was recently jailed for parole violations, arrange candles in the shape of a heart in a residential courtyard during a gathering on Valentine's Day in Omsk, Russia on February 14, 2021. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





A participant stands in a human chain during a demonstration to support female political prisoners and to protest against police violence in Saint Petersburg, Russia on February 14, 2021. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





A Russian female military cadet marches in front of the Eternal Flame at the WWII memorial complex at Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow on February 17, 2021, during a rehearsal for the upcoming February 23's Defender of the Fatherland Day. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)





A Russian police officer talks to a woman as she walks on a huge pile of snow collected from the Red Square at Moscow's Vasilyevsky Spusk, during a frosty day and after heavy snowfalls on February 20, 2021. (Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP Photo)





Steam rises from the heating plant behind a monument to Soviet cosmonaut Yury Gagarin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, February 15, 2021. Temperatures dipped to –16 C (3.2 F) during a day and –22 C (–7.6 F) at night. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)





A dog with blue fur is pictured inside a cage at a veterinary hospital where it was taken for examination in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia on February 16, 2021. The pack of stray dogs with blue fur was found earlier this month near an abandoned chemical plant in the city of Dzerzhinsk. (Photo by Anastasia Makarycheva/Reuters)





A view shows the partially frozen Uchan-Su waterfall near Yalta, Crimea on February 17, 2021. (Photo by Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters)





Women walk past banks of snow on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street in central Moscow, Russia on February 14, 2021. (Photo by Valery Sharifulin/TASS)





Young visitors look at a diver dressed up as a mermaid as they walk through an observation tunnel in an aquarium at the Yekaterinburg Oceanarium in Yekaterinburg, Russia on February 14, 2021. The Yekaterinburg Oceanarium is an entertainment and educational centre, which has three thematic sections (Rivers and Lakes, Tropical Forest, and Seas and Oceans) and more than 70 aquariums. (Photo by Donat Sorokin/TASS)





A man walks past a graffiti during snowfall in Stavropol, Russia on February 15, 2021. (Photo by Eduard Korniyenko/Reuters)





A man looks through binoculars on a sunny winter day in Moscow, Russia on February 19, 2021. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Children play in the snow after a snowfall in Moscow, Russia, 15 February 2021. Moscow was struck by a powerful snowfall, and temperatures​ in the Russian capital dropped to minus 18 degrees Celsius. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)