Avrutin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign):The Confrontations: Emotions and the Meaning of Belief in a Russian Border TownMarianna Muravyeva (Oxford Brookes University):"He Called me a Pimp and his Mother a Broad": Emotions of Complaint in the Narratives of Parent Abuse in Early Modern RussiaDaniel Newman (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum):Emotional Appeals in Early Soviet Criminal Cases: The Plach as Legal StrategyChair: Pavel Vasilyev (Max Planck Institute for… [read post]

As the situation in Anbar deteriorates, in Bloomberg, Terry Atlas and Zaid Sabah outline a number of the challenges the U.S. and Iraqi governments face in establishing a capable Iraqi National Guard to push back against the Islamic State. [read post]

House investigators are now seeking  records about Giuliani’s past clientele in Ukraine, including Pavel Fuks, a wealthy developer who financed consulting work Giuliani did for the city of Kharkiv. [read post]