A young woman cools off in a fountain at VDNKh (The Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy) enjoying the warm weather, in Moscow, Russia, on Sunday, June 30, 2024. Warm weather has settled in Moscow with a temperature of 31 Celsius, (87,8 Fahrenheit) and will increase in the coming days. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Girls cool off in a fountain at VDNKh (The Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy) enjoying the warm weather, in Moscow, Russia, on Sunday, June 30, 2024. Warm weather has settled in Moscow with a temperature of 31 Celsius, (87,8 Fahrenheit) and will increase in the coming days. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A youngster cools off in a fountain at VDNKh (The Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy) enjoying the warm weather, in Moscow, Russia,Sunday, June 30, 2024. Warm weather has settled in Moscow with a temperature of 31 Celsius, (87,8 Fahrenheit) and will increase in the coming days. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





People walk on the Red Square outside the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, 02 July 2024. The temperature in Moscow exceeded 32 degrees Celsius. (Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA/EFE)





A girl cools herself in a fountain at Manezhnaya Square near the Kremlin Wall in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, July 2, 2024. Warm weather has settled in Moscow with a temperature of 32 Celsius, (89,6 Fahrenheit) and will increase in the coming days. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A woman sunbaths during a hot day in Moscow, Russia, 02 July 2024. According to the leading specialist of the Phobos weather center, Evgeny Tishkovets, 28 temperature records were recorded in Russia on 02 July 2024. In downtown Moscow, the air heated up to plus 32.1 degrees Celsius. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)





A man covers his head with a leaf during a hot day at a pond at residential district in Moscow, Russia, 03 July 2024. The temperatures in Moscow exceeded 33 degrees Celsius. (Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA/EFE)





Pigeons sit on a bas-relief depicting a scene from the Soviet life of the middle of the 20-th century located at the entrance to one of metro stations in Moscow on July 2, 2024. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)





People watch the sunset at Russian Academy of Sciences observation deck in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, July 7, 2024. (Photo by Pavel Bednyakov/AP Photo)





Theater director Zhenya Berkovich, right, and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk are seen in a glass cage prior to a hearing in a court in Moscow, Russia, Monday, July 8, 2024. A Russian court has convicted a theater director and a playwright of terrorism charges and sentenced them to six years prison. Zhenya Berkovich, a prominent independent theater director, and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk have already been jailed for over a year while awaiting trial. They have repeatedly rejected the accusations against them, the latest step in an unrelenting crackdown on dissent in Russia that has reached new heights since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi after awarding him with the Order of St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A man takes a video selfie, riding a bicycle at the Palace Square in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, July 10, 2024. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





People walk past flowers planted as part of the urban landscape design festival “Summer in Moscow. Gardens and flowers” in Moscow, Russia, 12 July 2024. More than 650 flower objects and 50 exhibition gardens decorate Moscow. The festival will last until 08 September 2024. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA)





A participant dressed in a frog costume steers a SUP board during a SUP (Stand Up Paddle)-Surfing festival on the Vodootvodny Channel at the Tretyakovsky Bridge in the center of Moscow, Russia, Sunday, July 14, 2024. More than 600 people dressed as fairy-tale characters took part in the SUP festival in Moscow. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





People look at a vintage Kolomna Motor tram car (1926-1935) during the street exhibition Retro Transport Parade at Chistoprudny Boulevard in Moscow, Russia, 04 June 2022. Trams of different generations, MAZ and GAZ trucks from the collection of the Moscow Transport Museum, as well as cars and motorcycles of the Soviet era took part in the Retro Transport Parade. For the first time, exhibits from the museum of the Special Purpose Garage of the Federal Security Service of Russia (FSO) featured in the parade. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)





People look at the retro tram X (1927-1941) during the street exhibition “Retro Tram Parade” as part of marking the 125th anniversary of the city tramway service in Moscow, Russia on 13 July 2024. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)





A woman wears a conductor's uniform as people look at various retro trams during the street exhibition “Retro Tram Parade” as part of marking the 125th anniversary of the city tramway service in Moscow, Russia on 13 July 2024. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)





Participants in contemporary costumes pose in front of the horse-drawn tram “Conca” (1872) during the street exhibition “Retro Tram Parade” as part of marking the 125th anniversary of the city tramway service in Moscow, Russia on 13 July 2024. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)





People look at the horse-drawn tram “Conca” (1872) during the street exhibition “Retro Tram Parade” as part of marking the 125th anniversary of the city tramway service in Moscow, Russia on 13 July 2024. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)





A woman adjusts the mirror of a retro tram KTM-1 (1948-1950) during the street exhibition “Retro Tram Parade” as part of marking the 125th anniversary of the city tramway service in Moscow, Russia on 13 July 2024. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)