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
Alexander Bronstein Alexander Bronstein Alexander Bronstein (; born June 15, 1954 in Leningrad, USSR) is an entrepreneur and billionaire currently living in Tallinn, Estonia. He is an Estonian citizen. Bronstein is well known in Jewish circles and is vice president of the Eurasian Jewish congress. A keen philanthropist, he sponsored the building of the first synagogue and community centre in Estonia. Son of academic and World War II veteran (Mikhail Bronstein). Alexander Bronstein was born in 1954 in Leningrad. Anti-semitism drove the family to Tallinn, Estonia in 1956. In 1976 Bronstein graduated from Tartu State University with a degree in Applied Mathematics,