Russian Karaoke

In North America, Karaoke is dominated by Asians, specifically Koreans and Japanese I believe. On Ben Gurion street in Haifa, however, we have found a small bar called Cobra, whose clientele is almost exclusively Russian (as is the ownership). When we went on Wednesday, there were about three middle-aged Russian women singing Russian songs on the Karaoke machine. We asked if they had English songs, and they had a handful, but they were mostly bizarre 80s songs that even I, a lover of 80s music, had never heard of. The only ones we did know, and sang, were "Killing Me Softly" (not the Fugees version), "I'm Your Venus" and "Rasputin" as in "Ra-Ra Rasputin, lover of the Russian Queen." Very bizarre, but amusing. The only song I know in Russian is the Soviet National Anthem, but I don't think they had that one.