Curator of football exhibition says women must be represented theguardian.com/football/2022/…

From Shakespeare to Ian Curtis: British pop archive to open in Manchester theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/a…

Russian air strikes continued alongside heavy fighting in Ukraine’s encircled port of Mariupol, the British defense ministry said in an intelligence update Wednesday, adding that Russian forces are likely to pressure defenders to surrender.

themoscowtimes.com/2022/04/05/ukr…

The United States starting Tuesday will bar Russia from making debt payments using funds held at American banks, ramping up the economic pain on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. Treasury said themoscowtimes.com/2022/04/05/rus…

Today in 1812, 27,000 British & Portuguese troops under Wellesley (the future Duke of Wellington) storm the French-held city of Badajoz, Spain following a 3-week siege. After taking heavy casualties in the assault, some of the more vengeful victors loot the town & kill hundreds.

On this day in 1862, Union & Confederate armies collide at Shiloh, Tennessee. Over the next two days, 23,000 casualties will be inflicted. More Americans die at Shiloh than had been killed in ALL other U.S. wars up to that point combined! Even greater bloodbaths will follow.

Корпорация Intel – крупный производитель микрочипов и компьютерной техники – объявила о полной приостановке своей деятельности на российском и белорусском рынках.

В ограду посольства России в Бухаресте врезался и загорелся автомобиль, водитель погиб. Предполагается, что это была преднамеренная акция.

Since March, Belarus has blocked several websites due to the alleged promotion of “extremist material.”

⚡️RFE/RL: Belarus blocks Human Rights Watch website.

Belarus’s Ministry of Information blocked the human rights website on April 6 following a decision of the Minsk City Prosecutor Oleg Lavrukhin.