RAR files with cyrillic inside on OS X

Most rar extractors on OS X (B1FreeArchiver and SimplyRAR) cannot extract files with cyrillic in the name. The files have a weird name and the extensions get completely messed up:

Solution

Share a folder with a Windows XP VM, use WinRAR to extract directly in the shared folder (it is not a problem to use a shared folder directly). And voila the files have the correct names and extensions.

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