Culinary link: meat-stuffed pies that look like pigs

I came across Daria and Puneet Mehra's website by chance ... On their travels across the world, they spent New Year's 2003/2004 at Daria's brother's dacha outside St. Petersburg and ate some meat-stuffed pies that look like pigs:



What a lovely form! For veggie versions, I can think of various fillings: mushrooms (mixed with rice, maybe), various vegetables, potatoes, soy or quorn based meat substitute - or berries, jam, chocolate cream, ...