Opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych is leading in Sunday"s Ukrainian presidential election runoff with different exit polls giving him from 48.7% to 50.26%.
Seven thousand people attended the Russian Communist Party"s May Day rally in Moscow, which added anti-NATO slogans to the more traditional "Peace! May! Labor! Socialism!"
Russia"s Evgeni Plushenko won the Olympic silver medal in Vancouver in the men"s free skating competition, beat out by the U.S."s Evan Lysacek who took the gold medal.