A Russian company has installed 33 vending machines across Moscow, including in the mayor’s office, that dispense glass jars and tin cans of red salmon roe.

This is a less-pricey version of the caviar, that Russians spread on toast and drink with sparkling wine for special events.

But those looking for the black sturgeon varieties — such as Beluga, Ossetra, and Sevruga — won’t find it in vending machines.

Black sturgeon caviar harvesting is limited to about 9 tons a year as many varieties have been hunted to near-extinction.

Fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier on Friday achieved a long-held dream by presenting his first haute couture collection in Russia at a Moscow railway station.

Gaultier said he was delighted to use the Kazansky railway terminus, one of Moscow’s three main rail stations, as the backdrop for his fashion collection, saying it was an invitation to a journey. “And my collection is a journey”.

“One of my dreams in Paris was to do a show in the restaurant at Gare de Lyon” he said, referring to the railway station’s belle epoque Train Bleu restaurant.

A Soviet-era landmark in the center of Moscow has reopened as a luxury hotel after a three-year renovation.

The former Hotel Ukraina was known as one of the “Seven Sisters,” an iconic set of skyscrapers built under Stalin between 1947 and 1953 to rival the structures springing up in capitalist cities such as New York.

Built in an elaborate gothic style with a “wedding-cake” construction and spires, they were intended to symbolize Soviet power and achievement.

When it comes about cars all the craziest ideas come from Russia.

Ohra Desig have created a Bentley Continental GT covered in African buffalo leather embossed and painted to look like crocodile skin.

Dubbed the Bentley Suitcase Croco, the project took skilled automotive artisans nine months to complete.

Russia recently crowned its latest representative to the Miss World pageant, Miss Irina Antonenko.

Irina Antonenko won $100,000 and the chance to represent the country in the Miss World pageant, RIA Novosti reported Sunday.

The crown awarded to Antonenko is the world’s most expensive with an estimated value surpassing $1 million, RIA Novosti said.

After two years of planning, Fabergé , the brand famous for its ornately jeweled eggs, has presented its first jewelry collection in 92 years.

The collection uses hundreds or thousands of tiny gems on each piece to create mosaic effects on rings, brooches, earrings and necklaces.

The collection was designed by Parisian artist-jeweler Frederic Zaavy in collaboration with Faberge Creative Director Katharina Flohr.