A young boy hugs a member of Wagner group in Rostov-on-Don, on June 24, 2023. (Photo by Roman Romokhov/AFP Photo)





Security officers check a car in front of The Borovitskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, June 25, 2023. Troops deployed in Moscow the previous day to protect the capital from Wagner mercenaries have withdrawn from the capital, and people swarmed the streets and flocked to cafes. Traffic returned to normal and roadblocks and checkpoints were removed, but Red Square remained close to visitors. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Russian soldiers walk to clean the area at the headquarters of the Southern Military District in Rostov-on-Don, southern Russia, Sunday, June 25, 2023. The armed rebellion by a powerful mercenary group against the Russian military was over in less than 24 hours, but the disarray within the enemy’s ranks was an unexpected morale-boosting gift for Ukraine – at a time when its armed forces needed it the most. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Young people walk in Manezhnaya Street in Moscow, Russia on June 25, 2023. (Photo by Valery Sharifulin/TASS)





People at a barrier blocking the way to the Red Square in Moscow, Russia, 25 June 2023. On 24 June, counter-terrorism measures were enforced in Moscow and other Russian regions after private military company (PMC) Wagner Group's chief claimed that his troops had occupied the building of the headquarters of the Southern Military District in Rostov-on-Don, demanding a meeting with Russia's defense chiefs. Belarusian President Lukashenko, a close ally of Putin, negotiated a deal with Wagner chief Prigozhin to stop the movement of the group's fighters across Russia, the press service of the President of Belarus reported. The negotiations were said to have lasted for the entire day. Prigozhin announced that Wagner fighters were turning their columns around and going back in the other direction, returning to their field camps. (Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA/EFE)





People rest in a street side cafe as other walk passed during a sunny day in the center of Moscow, Russia, Sunday, June 25, 2023. Troops deployed in Moscow the previous day to protect the capital from Wagner mercenaries have withdrawn from the capital, and people swarmed the streets and flocked to cafes. Traffic returned to normal and roadblocks and checkpoints were removed, but Red Square remained close to visitors. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





People walk in a park near the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, June 26, 2023, on a day declared a holiday due to the situation in the country. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Commuters ride on a metro train next to a poster promoting contract army service and reading “Join your people!” in Moscow on June 26, 2023. (Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP Photo)





Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with the heads of Russian law enforcement agencies at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, June 26, 2023. (Photo by Valery Sharifulin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP Photo)





In this photo taken from video and released on Monday, June 26, 2023 by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu speaks to officers as he inspects a command post of one of the formations of the Zapad (West) group of Russian troops at an undisclosed location of Ukraine. Shoigu made his first public appearance Monday since a mercenary uprising demanded his ouster, inspecting troops in Ukraine. (Photo by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP Photo)





People walk under a colonnade of the World War Two museum in Moscow, Russia on June 26, 2023. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives to deliver a speech to the units of the Russian Defense Ministry, the Russian National Guard (Rosgvardiya), the Russian Interior Ministry, the Russian Federal Security Service and the Russian Federal Guard Service, who ensured order and legality during the mutiny, at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. (Photo by Sergei Guneyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP Photo)





Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech to the units of the Russian Defense Ministry, the Russian National Guard (Rosgvardiya), the Russian Interior Ministry, the Russian Federal Security Service and the Russian Federal Guard Service, who ensured order and legality during the mutiny, at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. (Photo by Sergei Guneyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP Photo)





Servicemen gather on the Sobornaya (Cathedral) Square before President Vladimir Putin's address to troops from the defence ministry, National Guard, FSB security service and interior ministry on the grounds of the Kremlin in central Moscow on June 27, 2023. (Photo by Sergei Guneyev/Sputnik via AFP Photo)





Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses troops from the defence ministry, National Guard, FSB security service and interior ministry gathered on the Sobornaya (Cathedral) Square from the porch of the the Palace of the Facets on the grounds of the Kremlin in central Moscow on June 27, 2023. (Photo by Sergei Guneyev/Sputnik via AFP Photo)





A woman takes photos of a child on a sports ground covered with hailstones following a hail storm in the Siberian city of Omsk, Russia on June 27, 2023. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





Muslims attend morning prayers to celebrate Eid al-Adha near the Moscow Cathedral Mosque in Moscow, Russia, 28 June 2023. Eid al-Adha is the holiest of the two Muslims holidays celebrated each year, it marks the yearly Muslim pilgrimage (Hajj) to visit Mecca in Saudi Arabia, the holiest place in Islam. Muslims slaughter a sacrificial animal in memory of a biblical story about prophet Abraham readiness to sacrifice his own son after a command from god in a dream. After an animal has been sacrificed the meat is usually split into three parts, one for the family, one for friends and relatives, and one for the poor and needy. (Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA)





Police officers stand guard while muslims attend morning prayers to celebrate Eid al-Adha near the Moscow Cathedral Mosque in Moscow, Russia, 28 June 2023. Eid al-Adha is the holiest of the two Muslims holidays celebrated each year, it marks the yearly Muslim pilgrimage (Hajj) to visit Mecca in Saudi Arabia, the holiest place in Islam. Muslims slaughter a sacrificial animal in memory of a biblical story about prophet Abraham readiness to sacrifice his own son after a command from god in a dream. After an animal has been sacrificed the meat is usually split into three parts, one for the family, one for friends and relatives, and one for the poor and needy. (Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA/EFE)





Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) meets with people in a street during a working trip to Dagestan, in Derbent, Russia's Republic of Dagestan, 28 June 2023 (issued 29 June 2023). The growth of domestic tourism in Russia is provided, among other things, by sanctions from a number of states, said Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin, in particular, drew attention to the tourism potential of the North Caucasus. (Photo by Gavriil Grigorov/EPA)





Zhenya Berkovich, a prominent independent theater director, left, and Svetlana Petriychuk, a playwright, sit in a cage prior to a hearing in a court in Moscow, Russia, on Friday, June 30, 2023. A Russian court on Friday ordered pretrial detention for a theater director and a playwright facing charges of justifying terrorism, the latest move in a relentless crackdown on dissent in Russia that spiked to unprecedented levels since the start of the war in Ukraine. (Photo by Vladimir Kondrashov/AP Photo)