This country has a knack for luxury. Several corrections officers were discharged in the Russian city if Volgograd for allegedly setting up 'VIP prison cells' — a five-star accommodation for wealthy mugs and senior mafia bosses.

The luxury cell boasts wood-decorated walls, fridge, Internet, phone, weapons (!), and other pleasantries not usually found in Russian jail.

The authorities had discovered that some of the inmates live a little too comfortable back in October, but the prison officers countered that the quarters are not actual cells but rather a special space for treating inmates from depression. 15 guards were fired two months after their scheme was discovered and reported by the local media.

The only sad thing about this story (apart from that poor criminals will not be able to get the room upgrade) is that the illegal luxury Russian jail cell looks very much like an average non-luxury common-criminal cell in Netherlands.

Opulence. We don't really has it.