A bird flies in front of a church at sunset on the outskirts of Moscow on March 3, 2021. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Photo)
An officer of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service walks near the gate of the penal colony N2, where Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been transferred to serve a two-and-a-half year prison term for violating parole, in the town of Pokrov on March 1, 2021. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)
People place flowers at the site of the assassination of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov while marking the 6th anniversary of Nemtsov's death, in central Moscow, Russia on February 27, 2021. (Photo by Tatyana Makeyeva/Reuters)
A woman takes a selfie with Russian servicemen during an International Women's Day celebration in Sevastopol, Crimea on March 8, 2021. (Photo by Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters)
An inside view from snow and ice covered abandoned building in Sementnozavodsky region, 19 kilometers from coal-mining town Vorkuta, Komi Republic, Russia on March 01, 2021. Extremely cold weather in Vorkuta, temperatures as low as minus 50 degrees Celsius and unemployment increase the migration. Migration experienced every year in the region turned some settlements into ghost cities after 2013. (Photo by Maria Passer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
A view of snow and ice covered abandoned buildings in Severny region, 17 kilometers from coal-mining town Vorkuta, Komi Republic, Russia on March 01, 2021. (Photo by Maria Passer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
An inside view from snow and ice covered abandoned building in Sementnozavodsky region, 19 kilometers from coal-mining town Vorkuta, Komi Republic, Russia on March 01, 2021. (Photo by Maria Passer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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An inside view from snow and ice covered abandoned building in Sementnozavodsky region, 19 kilometers from coal-mining town Vorkuta, Komi Republic, Russia on March 01, 2021. (Photo by Maria Passer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
An inside view from snow and ice covered abandoned building in Severny region, 17 kilometers from coal-mining town Vorkuta, Komi Republic, Russia on March 01, 2021. (Photo by Maria Passer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
A view of snow and ice covered abandoned buildings in Sementnozavodsky region, 19 kilometers from coal-mining town Vorkuta, Komi Republic, Russia on March 01, 2021. (Photo by Maria Passer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
People stand in the sun against the wall of Peter and Paul fortress on the bank of the Neva River in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. The air in St. Petersburg warmed up to 4 degrees Centigrade (39 degrees Fahrenheit). (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)
People walk along a bridge near a thermoelectric power station in central Moscow, Russia on March 4, 2021. (Photo by Yuri Kadabnov/AFP Photo)
A team of female cadets takes part in a tug-of-war competition at Budyonny Military Academy of the Signal Corps in St Petersburg, Russia on March 7, 2021. (Photo by Peter Kovalev/TASS/Profimedia)
A visitor looks at a video artwork by US video artist Bill Viola during the exhibition “The Journey of the Soulat” at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, Russia, 01 March 2021. The Journey of the Soulat is a first solo exhibition of Bill Viola in Russia. More than 20 of Viola's works, created over 14 years from 2000 to 2014, are presented at the exhibition taking place from 02 March to 01 June. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)
A man walks on a street during a spring snowfall as the temperature rose up to 2 degrees Celsius in Moscow, Russia, 04 March 2021. (Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA/EFE)
A man walks by a monument to the founder of the Soviet state Vladimir Lenin, also known as “the biggest head of Lenin in the World”, in Ulan-Ude, Republic of Buryatia, Russia on March 4, 2021. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)
A Communist party supporter holds a portrait of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin during a wreath laying ceremony at Joseph Stalin'stomb as communists mark the 68th anniversary of his death near the Kremlin wall in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia, 05 March 2021. Josef Stalin died on 05 March 1953 at the age of 74. (Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA/EFE)
People gather to lay flowers at the grave of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin near Red Square outside the Kremlin in Moscow on March 5, 2021, to mark the 68th anniversary his death. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)
A participant lights a torch during Baikal Mile 2021 festival of speed on the ice of frozen Lake Baikal near the village of Maksimikha in the Republic of , Russia on March 6, 2021. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)