From soap factory to commanding a rebel town in Ukraine Vyacheslav Ponomaryov says he was running a soap factory when pro-Moscow separatists tapped him to lead them in the east Ukrainian town of Slavyansk. While his broad smile revealing several gold teeth, he says his escalation to self-styled "mayor" was unexpected. But this man, who was once in the Soviet military, clearly relishes it. A natural sound version of an AFPTV report