A man takes a picture of models as they pose next to Cosmis Racing Wheels products during the 2016 Moscow International Auto Salon in Moscow, Russia, August 26, 2016. (Photo by Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)
Dancers perform during the opening ceremony before the Russia 2018 World Cup Group A football match between Russia and Saudi Arabia at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow on June 14, 2018. (Photo by Sergei Bobylev/TASS via Getty Images)
A member of the Grupa Magnifica acrobatics club poses for a photo on the Baltic Sea beach during sunset in the town of Leba, Pomeranian region, on August 6, 2024. (Photo by Sergei Gapon/AFP Photo)
Vintage wine bottles dated from 1946 lay down in the wine cellar of the Massandra winery near Yalta, 28 March 2014 (Yalta is a resort city on the north coast of the Black Sea in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and incorporated by Russia as the Republic of Crimea). Massandra winery has one of the largest wine collections in the world. (Photo by Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA)
Members of the Honour Guard and the central military band of the Mongolian armed forces perform during the International Military Music Festival “Spasskaya Tower” media preview in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, August 26, 2016. (Photo by Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)
The Kremlin's Spasskaya (Saviour) Tower, covered by scaffolding, is seen behind the mausoleum of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin at the Red Square in Moscow, December 23, 2014. The restoration works will last until the spring of 2015, according to local media. (Photo by Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)
Yandex.Eda food delivery service employees by Barrikadnaya Station of the Moscow Metro in Moscow, Russia on April 12, 2020. Russian President Vladimir Putin has expanded non-working period till April 30, 2020 to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. (Photo by Sergei Savostyanov/TASS via Getty Images)
A girl plays in a water-jets fountain in Moscow, Russia, 23 June 2021. The temperature exceeded 36 degrees Celsius in Moscow. The weather in Moscow broke the temperature record high of the day, held since 1948, when meteorologists recorded +33.6. (Photo by Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA/EFE)