Actors, clowns and mime artists celebrate “Humor Day” in St Petersburg on April 1, 2022. April 1 is also referred to as “April Fool’s Day” and is a time for playing pranks in the country. (Photo by Anatoly Maltsev/European Press Photo Agency)

Young women dance a group dance at the Palace Square in St.Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, September 24, 2020. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko gestures during a news conference in Kiev, Ukraine, June 5, 2015. REUTERS/Mykhailo Markiv/Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Pool

Actors perform during the ice sculptures festival “Ice Moscow” in Moscow, Russia, 06 January 2025. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)

Ukrainian soldiers Anastasia and Vyacheslav embrace prior to their wedding ceremony in a city park in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, April 7, 2022. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)

Couples dance samba as smoke rises from a burning pyrotechnics warehouse in Moscow on June 19 2021. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)

Soldiers of Ukraine's National Guard 1st brigade Bureviy (Hurricane) fire a recoilless cannon during combat training at a military training ground in the north of Ukraine Friday, November 3, 2023. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)