The democratic opposition in Belarus is still reeling from revelations that Lithuania provided information to Minsk that led to the arrest of a leading human rights activist. A contrite Vilnius is scrambling to apologize for its role, while the Belarusian opposition says the incident shows that Europe should take an even harder line against Minsk.
Leading opposition figures in Belarus have welcomed a letter by a bipartisan group of U.S. senators urging the Obama administration to oppose an International Monetary Fund bailout request from the government of President Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
