Typical Soviet News Today

BetaShares founder Alex Vynokur was born in Ukraine and has been putting his considerable business skills to use, setting up the United Ukraine Appeal.

«Комсомолка» выяснила, откуда взялись странные и смешные названия местных населенных пунктов

How a Soviet family raised a lion Valery Shustov/Sputnik; Yu. Rakhil, S. Kuleshov/TASS Imagine the scene: It is morning and a family is having breakfast - the mother, father and their children are drinking tea, but at the head of the table sits a lion, with a basin of raw meat in front of him. This is the story of how an ordinary Soviet family took in a sick lion cub and how it all ended. Lev Lvovich Berberov, his wife Nina and their two children - Eva and Roma [Roman] - lived ...