Spectators take photos of models displaying creations by Russian designer Zuhat during Moscow Fashion Week in Moscow, Russia, Monday, October 7, 2024. (Photo by Pavel Bednyakov/AP Photo)





A model displays a creation by Russian designer Alena Nega during the Moscow Fashion Week in Moscow, Russia, Monday, October 7, 2024. (Photo by Pavel Bednyakov/AP Photo)





A model displays a creation by Russian designer Igor Gulyaev during the Moscow Fashion Week in Moscow, Russia, Monday, October 7, 2024. (Photo by Pavel Bednyakov/AP Photo)





A model displays a creation by Russian designer Igor Gulyaev during the Moscow Fashion Week in Moscow, Russia, Monday, October 7, 2024. (Photo by Pavel Bednyakov/AP Photo)





A woman looks at her phone while waiting for a train at a metro station “Okhotny Ryad” in Moscow in Moscow, Russia 16 October 2024. As of 2024, the metro consists of 15 two-way lines with a length of about 466.62 km and 268 stations, of which more than 40 are cultural heritage sites. The Moscow metro was opened on 15 May 1935 and the annual passenger traffic in 2023 was 2,169,400,000. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA)





A woman poses with a retro VAZ 2101 car during the annual BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia on October 22, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Workers cover a sculpture for the winter season in the Summer Garden of the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, October 22, 2024. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A plane carrying Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi lands at the Kazan Airport ahead of the BRICS summit, Russia on October 22, 2024. (Photo by Maksim Blinov/BRICS-RUSSIA2024.RU Host Photo Agency via Reuters)





Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi enter a hall for the family photo before a plenary session of the BRICS 2024 Summit in Kazan, Russia on October 23, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/Reuters)





People wearing medieval armour components take part in a friendly fight event held in a basketball court to keep the medieval street fights alive in Russian capital Moscow on October 28, 2024. The “Tushino maneuvers”, or friendship fights between clubs, were created to preserve the traditional aspects of medieval street battles and pass them on to younger generations. These fights quickly gained popularity in the city. The warriors, who gather on specific days of the week and engage in combat while clad in steel armor, are highly regarded and admired by the populace. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images)





People wearing medieval armour components take part in a friendly fight event held in a basketball court to keep the medieval street fights alive in Russian capital Moscow on October 28, 2024. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images)





In this photo taken from video distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Tuesday, October 29, 2024, A Yars intercontinental ballistic missile is test-fired from the Plesetsk launchpad in northwestern Russia. (Photo by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP Photo)





An elderly woman walks with a boy in a park on an autumn day in Moscow, Russia, on October 29, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Leader of the Russian Communist Party, Gennady Zuganov, attends a laying flowers ceremony at Joseph Stalin's tomb on the Red Square to mark the 106th anniversary of the founding of the Leninist Komsomol in Moscow, Russia, 29 October 2024. The Komsomol is a political youth organization of the Soviet Union. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)





A woman crosses herself attending a memorial service that commemorates the victims of Soviet-era purges as part of 'the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Political Repressions' at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, October 30, 2024. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A person looks at photos of North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un, outside of the Embassy of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in Moscow, Russia, 30 October 2024. North Korean state news agency KCNA and Russian officials on 30 October confirmed that North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hu was traveling to Moscow after arriving in Vladivostok the previous day. Choe's visit comes after NATO joined Seoul, Washington and Kyiv in confirming Pyongyang's deployment of troops to Russia's Kursk region on the border with Ukraine. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)





Visitors pass a miniature copy of the sculpture of a huge sleeping baby “Child of the Earth” by a member of the Chinese Sculptors' Union and the Chinese Society of Arts and Crafts Dong Shubin during the International Science Fiction symposium “Inventing the Future” at the National Centre Russia in Moscow, Russia, 04 November 2024. The Russia National Centre hosts the International Science Fiction Symposium “Inventing the Future” from 04 to 06 November. (Photo by Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA/EFE)





Russian honour guard soldiers attend the opening ceremony of the exhibition of western military equipment captured by Russian forces in Kharkiv and Sumy regions of Ukraine at the “Russia – My History” Historical Park in Saint Petersburg on November 4, 2024. (Photo by Olga Maltseva/AFP Photo)





People walk their dogs during a snowfall in Moscow, Russia, 04 November 2024. Russia Hydrometeorological Center forecasts a 10 cm increase in freshly fallen snow in Moscow as a result of snowfall on 04 November. (Photo by Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA/EFE)





People walk near a screen showing an image of Russian service members at an exhibition marking the anniversary of a historical military parade in 1941, when Soviet soldiers marched from Red Square towards the front lines in the course of World War Two, in central Moscow, Russia, on November 8, 2024. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)