A woman reacts as she lays a flower at a symbolic memorial of victims of the military conflict in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh at the Armenian Embassy in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, October 17, 2020. Nagorno-Karabakh lies within Azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since a war there ended in 1994. The latest outburst of fighting began on Sept. 27 and has involved heavy artillery, rockets and drones, killing hundreds and marking the largest escalation of hostilities between the South Caucasus neighbors in more than a quarter-century. (Photo by Mikhail Kirakosyan/AP Photo)





A man holding the national flag of Azerbaijan stands next to a makeshift memorial for people killed in the country during the military conflict over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, outside the embassy of Azerbaijan in Moscow, Russia on October 19, 2020. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)





A woman cries at a makeshift memorial for Armenians killed during the military conflict with Azerbaijan over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, outside the Armenian embassy in Moscow on October 20, 2020. (Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP Photo)





A Russian honour guard stands guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall in downtown Moscow on October 19, 2020, amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Russia confirmed 15,982 new Covid-19 cases on October 19, 2020. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Photo)





A model wears a creation during a runway show for Julia Dalakian's collection during the 2020 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia at Nadezhda Loft in the former building of the Tryokhgornaya Manufaktura textile factory in Moscow, Russia on October 20, 2020. (Photo by Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS)





Medical workers wearing protective gear transport a patient suspected of having coronavirus from an ambulance to a hospital in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Thursday, October 22, 2020. Russia is facing a sharp rise in infections, but the Kremlin has ruled out a new lockdown. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A policeman wearing a protective mask patrols a street near Orthodox church during pandemic of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in Moscow, Russia, 14 October 2020. According to official information, in the past 24 hours Russia registered 17347 included 5224 in Moscow new cases caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)





Customers sit in a restaurant at Patriarshiye Prudy, a hip restaurant and bar district in Moscow, Russia, late Friday, October 16, 2020. The outbreak in Russia this month is breaking the records set in the spring, when a lockdown to slow the spread was put in place. But, as governments across Europe move to reimpose restrictions to counter rising cases, authorities in Russia are resisting shutting down businesses again. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)





An aerial view of the White Cliffs on Iturup Island, the largest one of the Kuril Islands, situated in the southern part of its Greater Kuril Chain, Sakhalin Region, Russia on October 15, 2020. (Photo by Yuri Smityuk/TASS)





A French Bulldog named Nord Boss stands an the back of his owner Natasha while they skateboard in the Sokolniki Park in Moscow, Russia on October 14, 2020. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)





A student of the General Yermolov Cadet School poses for a picture before boarding a plane as she takes part in a parachute jumping exercise at an airfield in the village of Novomaryevskaya outside Stavropol, Russia on October 18, 2020. (Photo by Eduard Korniyenko/Reuters)





Members of the Vainakh dance ensemble perform at the closing of the 2020 Caucasian peoples' festival of sports and culture in Grozny, Chechnya on October 25, 2020. (Photo by Yelena Afonina/TASS)





A bartender wearing face mask to protect against coronavirus makes a cocktail at Strelka bar in Moscow, Russia, Friday, October 23, 2020. In much of Europe, city squares and streets, be they wide, elegant boulevards like in Paris or cobblestoned alleys in Rome, serve as animated evening extensions of drawing rooms and living rooms. As Coronavirus restrictions once again put limitations on how we live and socialize, AP photographers across Europe delivered a snapshot of how Friday evening, the gateway to the weekend, looks and feels. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)





Trams go through a park on a cold autumn day in Moscow on October 20, 2020. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Photo)





An elderly WWII veteran pass thru the 3D exhibition in the mobile museum “Victory Train” dedicated to the World War II at the Vitebsky railway station in St. Petersburg, Russia, 25 October 2020. The exhibition of the train is a complete composition consisting of eight themed railway cars. Visitors can see the peaceful pre-war life and everyday life of besieged Leningrad, find themselves in a real trench during the battle, help wounded soldiers, participate in the preparation of the offensive operation “Bagration”. The train runs through 13 Russia's cities and finishing in Volgograd. The exhibition will be held for 36 days and will be open until 27 October in St. Petersburg. (Photo by Anatoly Maltsev/EPA/EFE)





A municipal worker wearing a face mask and a protective suit to protect against the coronavirus disease disinfects a square near Lenin's monument in central Moscow on October 19, 2020. (Photo by Yuri Kadobnov/AFP Photo)





A woman runs along an embankment of the Moskva river in Moscow on October 16, 2020. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)





International Space Station (ISS) crew member Ivan Vagner of the Russian space agency Roscosmos is seen on the screen during a live broadcast of the landing of the Soyuz MS-16 space capsule, at the Russian Mission Control Center, in Korolyov outside Moscow, Russia October 22, 2020. (Photo by Central Research Institute for Machine Building/Russian space agency Roscosmos/Handout via Reuters)





A medical worker wearing protective gear push a wheelchair with a patient suspected of having coronavirus at a hospital outside Moscow, Russia, Thursday, October 15, 2020. Life outside hospitals remains largely normal. Moscow officials recommended the elderly and those who have chronic illnesses stay home. They ordered employers to make 30% of their staff work from home, extended school vacation by a week and moved middle and high school students to online classes. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)





Dogs lick employee at the Husky Villiage Ruzskaya Alaska Kennel on October 17, 2020 in Baranovo, Russia. More than 130 Siberian Husky and Samoed dogs live in a private shelter, organized by lawer Natalia Basina. Most dogs in the shelter were founded on the streets, or handed over by owner who could not cope with animals of these breeds, which were fashionable among urban residents in early 2000s. (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)