Minsk Gets Money but Not Electricity

A man selling second-hand goods Tuesday in the Belarussian town of Grodno, some 270 kilometers from Minsk. A Russian-led bailout fund threw an $800 million lifeline to crisis-hit Belarus on Tuesday, but only a few hours later Moscow said it was halting electricity supplies again to its ex-Soviet neighbor because of unpaid bills. Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin announced the good news on the […]