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
Lev Timofeev the mid-1990s he joined the Transnational Radical Party and became a member of its General Council. Timofeev isone of the leading theorists of drug decriminalization. In early 2000 Timofeev retired from politics and teaching and embarked on a career of a novelist: since 2004 he published three novels and a collection of short stories. His 2006 novel "Negative" was nominated for the Booker Prize. Between 2011 and 2015 Timofeev regularly published his short stories in the Russian Riviera magazine. Lev Timofeev has three children: Sofiya, Yekaterina and Anton. Lev Timofeev Lev Timofeev (, born 1936) is a Russian economist, political