A couple stand near an improvised memorial to Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and others who died in a plane crash with him, 40 days after their deaths, near the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, on Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023. Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner military contractor, and nine other people, including his top associates, died when his private jet plummeted into a field northwest of Moscow shortly after taking off on Aug. 23. The authorities have remained silent about a possible cause of the crash. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)