Lev Karakhan Lev Karakhan Lev Mikhailovich Karakhan ("Karakhanian") Armenian Կարախանյան Լեւոն Միքայելի, Russian Лев Михайлович Карахан (20 January 1889, Tiflis – 20 September 1937, Moscow) was an ethnic Armenian-born Russian revolutionary and a Soviet diplomat. A member of the RSDLP from 1904. At first a Menshevik, he joined the Bolsheviks in May 1917. In October 1917, he was member of the Revolutionary Military Council; then served as secretary of the Soviet delegation at the Brest-Litovsk peace talks together with Leon Trotsky and Adolph Joffe. In 1918-1920 and 1927–1934, he was the Deputy People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs. In 1919, he issued a
Martin Bronstein Martin Bronstein Martin Bronstein (born 1935) is a British-Canadian actor, writer, columnist, broadcaster and journalist. Bronstein was born in London, England. Bronstein moved to Canada in 1959 and worked as a copywriter, journalist and comedy writer. He also worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation interviewing a series of musicians, including Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, Bob Dylan, Dizzy Gillespie, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington. With John Morgan, he wrote a comedy series, "Funny You Should Say That", for CBC. Bronstein was a founding member in 1970 of the Jest Society, which became the Royal Canadian Air Farce in 1973.