Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, congratulates the president of the Scientific Research Institute for Emergency Children's Surgery and Traumatology Leonid Roshal during a ceremony of handing Gold Stars medals to heroes of labor marking the Day of Russia holiday in Moscow, Russia, on Friday, June 12, 2020. The ceremony marked the first big public event Putin attended since announcing a nationwide lockdown more than two months ago. (Photo by Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool Photo via AP Photo)





A staff member of AltraVita fertility clinic takes a swab from an outdoor booth as a woman undergoes a test for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Moscow, Russia on June 10, 2020. The clinic added coronavirus testing to its list of services and installed a booth outdoors so clients can safely get tested for the disease. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)





A girl swings on a rope swing over the Volga River in Zavolzhsk, Ivanovo Region, Russia on June 9, 2020. (Photo by Vladimir Smirnov/TASS)





A person dressed as a bunny and wearing a funny face mask advertises a store amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, June 10, 2020. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





People rest at a one of parks by the Moscow River during a hot day in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, June 9, 2020. The Russian capital on Tuesday has ended a tight lockdown in place since late March, citing a slowdown in the coronavirus outbreak. Starting from Tuesday, Moscow residents are no longer required to self-isolate at home or obtain electronic passes for traveling around the city. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A woman wearing a protective face mask and gloves walks through a disinfection cabin placed at the entrance of the Evropeyskiy shopping mall, after it was reopened as part of a phase of lifting the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions in Moscow, Russia on June 5, 2020. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





A woman rides a scooter as people cross the Krymsky Bridge in Moscow, Russia, Monday, June 8, 2020. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)





People wearing face masks to protect against coronavirus walk through the subway in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, June 10, 2020. Moscow residents are no longer required to stay at home or obtain electronic passes for traveling around the city. All restrictions on taking walks, using public transportation or driving have been lifted as well. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)





A couple kiss at The Friendship of People fountain at the VDNKh,the All-Russia Exhibition of National Economy, in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, June 10, 2020. Moscow fountains opened Wednesday, a day after the city lifted a lockdown intended to stem the coronavirus outbreak. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Members of the Russian hydroflight team hold the Russian national flag during the Day of Russia celebration in St.Petersburg, Russia, Friday, June 12, 2020, with business tower Lakhta Centre, the headquarters of Russian gas monopoly Gazprom and Gazprom Arena soccer stadium in the background. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Mikoyan MiG-29UB fighter jets of the Strizhi (Swifts) aerobatic team fly in formation during a rehearsal of a military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II in Alabino, Moscow Region, Russia on June 10, 2020. Russian President Vladimir Putin has postponed the Victory Day parade to June 24 due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Sergei Bobylev/TASS)





This handout photo provided by Vasiliy Ryabinin shows oil spill outside Norilsk, 2,900 kilometers (1,800 miles) northeast of Moscow, Russia, Friday, May 29, 2020. Russian authorities have charged Vyacheslav Starostin, the director of an Arctic power plant that leaked 20,000 tons of diesel fuel into the ecologically fragile region on May 29, 2020, with violating environmental regulations. An investigation is ongoing Monday June 8, 2020, into the alleged crime, that could bring five years in prison if Starostin is found guilty. (Photo by Vasiliy Ryabinin via AP Photo)





People dance on the first day that lockdown measures were eased at an embankment over the Moscow River in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, June 9, 2020. The Russian capital on Tuesday has ended a tight lockdown in place since late March, citing a slowdown in the coronavirus outbreak. Starting from Tuesday, Moscow residents are no longer required to self-isolate at home or obtain electronic passes for traveling around the city. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)





People cool off in a fountain at the Gorky Park as the temperature exceeds 30°C in Russian capital Moscow on June 11, 2020. The number of coronavirus cases in Russia exceeded half a million on Thursday. With 8,779 new infections confirmed over the last 24 hours, the tally rose to 502,436, the country's emergency task force said in a daily report. Over the same period, the virus claimed the lives of 174 people, raising the death toll to 6,532, it said. (Photo by Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A woman in a face mask and gloves in Chistoprudny Boulevard during a national holiday known as Russia Day, celebrated on 12 June, amid the pandemic of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). On 9 June, Moscows authorities lifted the lockdown, however wearing face masks and observing social distancing rules in public remains mandatory. As of 12 June 2020, Russia has reported more than 511,000 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus infection, with more than 202,000 confirmed cases in Moscow. (Photo by Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS via Getty Images)





A worker cleans the glass of an enclosure with a giant panda in the Moscow Zoo prior its reopening on June 16 following loosened lockdown restrictions amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Moscow, Russia on June 15, 2020. (Photo by Tatyana Makeyeva/Reuters)





A woman wearing a face mask to protect against coronavirus walks in a carriage of a subway in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, June 10, 2020. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)





A woman looks at souvenirs in a souvenir stall in an underpass, with a T-shirt reading “That's not gonna happen!” in the foreground, amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, June 10, 2020. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





In this May 26, 2020, file photo, grave diggers wearing protective suits carry a coffin of a COVID-19 victim for burial in the section of a cemetery reserved for coronavirus victims, outside Moscow, Russia. The way Russia counts fatalities during the coronavirus pandemic could be one reason why its official death toll is far below many other countries, even as it has reported at least 511,000 infections, behind only the United States and Brazil. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo/File)





Bicycle and velomobile builder, multiple world champion in velomobile racing Sergei Dashevsky rides one of his bicycles by his house in Krasnodar, Russia on June 10, 2020. The bicycle built by Sergei Dashevsky measuring 8.4x16.5x16.1 centimeters is included in the Russian Book of Records as the smallest bicycle in Russia. (Photo by Igor Onuchin/TASS)