A picture taken in Moscow on February 1, 2022 shows Vodovzvodnaya tower (L) and Ivan the Great bell tower (R) in the Kremlin through illumination . (Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP Photo)





Activists in Kazan organized a snow-lantern festival to draw attention to environmental problems on January 30, 2022 in Russia's Tatarstan region. (Photo by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)





An aerial view of Russiaâs longest staircase is seen at the Torgashinsky mountain ridge outside Krasnoyarsk in Central Siberia, Russia on February 01, 2022. Its 1200m long with 1683 steps, with 3 view points over the mountains and the taiga. (Photo by Alexander Manzyuk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





An aerial view of Tokarevsky Lighthouse which stuck between ice floes in Vladivostok, Russia, on February 01, 2022. The lighthouse was stuck in the ice after the weather conditions, which were effective up to minus 50 degrees in winter. The Tokarevsky Lighthouse, which is accepted as the last point on the land in the world and the beginning of the Pacific Ocean, has become the most important center of tourism in the region. The 11.9-meter-high lighthouse on the 800-meter-long island is one of the oldest operating lighthouses in the Russian Far East, built in 1876. (Photo by Matvei Nosarev/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Actresses Ksenia Rappoport (R) and Aglaya Tarasova attend the Moscow premiere of Vladimir Bitokov's film Mama, I'm Home at the Khudozhestvenny cinema in Moscow, Russia on February 2, 2022. The film premiered at the 78th Venice International Film Festival. (Photo by Artyom Geodakyan/TASS)





In this photo taken from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Thursday, February 3, 2022, a view of Russian S-400 air defense missile systems in position during a military exercise, in Siberia, Russia. (Photo by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP Photo)





The hair of CSKA Moscow cheerleaders flies high as they perform during the Euroleague Basketball game between Alba Berlin and CSKA Moscow in Moscow, Russia, 04 February 2022. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)





Participants ride down a slope during the “Sunnyfest” festival of unusual sledges in the town of Mamadysh in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia on February 5, 2022. (Photo by Alexey Nasyrov/Reuters)





People walk at the art installation “Nowhere” by Gregory Orekhov at the Malevich park near the village of Razdory, outside Moscow, Russia February 6, 2022. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





A teenager receives a dose of Russia's Sputnik M (Gam-COVID-Vac-M) COVID-19 vaccine in Krasnodar, Russia, Friday, February 4, 2022. The Russian president says his government is considering loosening some coronavirus restrictions, even as the country is facing a record-breaking surge of infections because of the highly contagious omicron variant. (Photo by Vitaliy Timkiv/AP Photo)





A Siberian Husky dog looks through a car glass during a sled dog racing competition in the Omsk region, Russia on February 5, 2022. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





A soldier of the Kremlin guard stands at the Tomb of Unknown Soldier at the Kremlin Wall after a snowfall in Moscow, Russia, Monday, February 7, 2022. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Two men between an artificial trees decorated with light bulbs look at the Moscow buildings through a telescope at the observation deck of Vorobyovy Gory in Moscow, Russia, 08 February 2022. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)





A delivery food man wearing a protective face mask cycles on the street during the COVID-19 pandemic in Moscow, Russia, 09 February 2022. According to the national coronavirus information center, over the past 24 hours, a record number of 183,103 cases of the coronavirus infection have been detected in Russia. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)





British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin Wall in Moscow, Russia on February 11, 2022. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





A long-eared owl spotted in Tsaritsyno Park, southern Moscow on February 13, 2022. (Photo by Vasily Fedosenko/TASS)





A huge electronic billboard shows a photo of Kamila Valieva with words “Kamila, we are with you” on the building of the Salut hotel in Moscow, Russia, Monday, February 14, 2022. Russian teenager Kamila Valieva has been cleared to compete in the women's figure skating competition at the Winter Olympics despite failing a pre-Games drug test. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Visitors rest in the GUM department store in Moscow, Russia, Monday, February 14, 2022. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





People walk past a Market set up in Red Square with the St. Basil's Cathedral, left, and the Spasskaya Tower, right, in Moscow, Russia, late Monday, February 14, 2022. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A couple enjoy the ice rink in Red Square at the Moscow GUM State Department store with the Kremlin Wall in the background in Moscow, Russia, late Monday, February 14, 2022. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)