Shops, restaurants, cinemas, and sporting events return cautiously to life amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Business Returns To A Strange New Normal
- By RFE/RL
![A robotic arm undergoes testing before the opening of a cashier-free KFC restaurant in Moscow on June 12.](https://gdb.rferl.org/aedc01b6-1d7b-4c92-a3a9-e366da6f0307_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A robotic arm undergoes testing before the opening of a cashier-free KFC restaurant in Moscow on June 12.
![Spectators watch the movie Knives Out at an open-air cinema in Minsk on June 12.](https://gdb.rferl.org/1dbade73-f69c-4e98-a855-190bf30d88c9_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Spectators watch the movie Knives Out at an open-air cinema in Minsk on June 12.
![A woman walks through a disinfection gate at the entrance to a food court in Moscow on June 16.](https://gdb.rferl.org/a6c5ba97-7b0e-4dd9-ab42-e147a98647bd_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman walks through a disinfection gate at the entrance to a food court in Moscow on June 16.
![A Ukrainian soldier checks the temperature of a woman at a checkpoint between Ukrainian and separatist-controlled territories near Donetsk shortly after the crossing point was reopened. The photo was taken on June 22.](https://gdb.rferl.org/e730b7e1-40b6-46a7-b11a-88ff41db4c1a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Ukrainian soldier checks the temperature of a woman at a checkpoint between Ukrainian and separatist-controlled territories near Donetsk shortly after the crossing point was reopened. The photo was taken on June 22.
![A woman sits behind plastic screening in a newly reopened McDonald’s restaurant in Moscow on June 23.](https://gdb.rferl.org/02f8b2db-a98a-4e11-ade3-04bcd5b8c064_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman sits behind plastic screening in a newly reopened McDonald’s restaurant in Moscow on June 23.
![A worker sprays disinfectant inside a plane at Kyiv’s Boryspil International Airport on June 13, after passenger flights out of the Ukrainian capital resumed.](https://gdb.rferl.org/5b75721d-52ce-4b04-9850-506717a3103a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A worker sprays disinfectant inside a plane at Kyiv’s Boryspil International Airport on June 13, after passenger flights out of the Ukrainian capital resumed.
![Activists wearing protective masks and gloves gather signatures in support of their potential candidates in the upcoming presidential elections in Minsk on June 14.](https://gdb.rferl.org/1345cc77-e65c-497c-8dec-6bdaa96afe1a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Activists wearing protective masks and gloves gather signatures in support of their potential candidates in the upcoming presidential elections in Minsk on June 14.
![Hundreds of supporters of Kosovo’s interim prime minister maintain careful physical distancing at a protest in Pristina on May 28.](https://gdb.rferl.org/5c9874c4-a0c2-49d4-8638-77ae0bc7cb0f_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Hundreds of supporters of Kosovo’s interim prime minister maintain careful physical distancing at a protest in Pristina on May 28.