In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 5, 2010, Ukrainian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko, right, greets supporters during a rally in Kiev, Ukraine. Tensions are rising in Ukraine ahead of Sunday's presidential contest, with both candidates threatening to send thousands of supporters into the streets of the capital after the balloting. AP Photo logo AP Photo 1 month ago

In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 5, 2010, Ukrainian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko, right, greets supporters during a rally in Kiev, Ukraine. Tensions are rising in Ukraine ahead of Sunday's presidential contest, with both candidates threatening to send thousands of supporters into the streets of the capital after the balloting.

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  1. Ukraine�s ex-Prime Minister and opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko (R) reacts as she takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the monument of prominent Ukrainian poet and spiritual leader Taras Shevchenko on the anniversary of his birth in Kiev March 9, 2010. Ukraine's parliament loosened rules on the formation of coalitions on Tuesday, boosting new President Viktor Yanukovich's chances of securing the government he wants without resorting to a snap parliamentary vote.
  2. Police separate two competing rallies of supporters of Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko, left, and of President-elect Viktor Yanukovych, right, outside the Ukraine's Administrative Court in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010. Ukraine's embattled premier Yulia Tymoshenko said Saturday she has withdrawn her legal challenge to the results of the presidential runoff election that she lost by a narrow margin earlier this month.
  3. Ukraine's Prime Minister and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko arrives for a cabinet meeting in Kiev February 11, 2010. Tymoshenko, refusing to concede defeat in a presidential election, attacked rival Viktor Yanukovich on Thursday and top aide said her government had no intention of resigning.
  4. Ukraine's Prime Minister and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko arrives for a news conference in Kiev February 7, 2010. Tymoshenko refused to concede defeat on Sunday in a presidential election, saying it was too early to say who won based on exit polls that gave rival Viktor Yanukovich victory.
  5. Ukraine's Prime Minister and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko, center, flanked by her daughter Yevgenia, right, and husband Oleksandr, left, speaks to the media during the presidential election at a polling station in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. Ukraine's 37 million registered voters will choose between Russian-leaning opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych and Tymoshenko, who came to international prominence in the 2004 pro-Western Orange protests.
  6. Ukraine's Prime Minister and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko, center, flanked by her daughter Yevgenia, right, and husband Oleksandr, left, speaks to the media during the presidential election at a polling station in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. Ukraine's 37 million registered voters will choose between Russian-leaning opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych and Tymoshenko, who came to international prominence in the 2004 pro-Western Orange protests.
  7. Ukraine's Prime Minister and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko, center, flanked by her daughter Yevgenia, left, and husband Oleksandr walks to vote during the presidential election at a polling station in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. Ukraine's 37 million registered voters will choose between Russian-leaning opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych and Tymoshenko, who came to international prominence in the 2004 pro-Western Orange protests.
  8. Ukraine's Prime Minister and the Presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko, center, attends a massive rally called "Prayer for Ukraine" in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010, with a Ukraine national flag at the foreground. Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has threatened a rerun of the 2004 Orange Revolution, when hundreds of thousands of demonstrators protested a rigged election.
  9. In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 5, 2010, Ukrainian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko, left, greets supporters during a rally in Kiev, Ukraine. Tensions are rising in Ukraine ahead of Sunday's presidential contest, with both candidates threatening to send thousands of supporters into the streets of the capital after the balloting.
  10. In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 5, 2010, Ukrainian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko, right, greets supporters during a rally in Kiev, Ukraine. Tensions are rising in Ukraine ahead of Sunday's presidential contest, with both candidates threatening to send thousands of supporters into the streets of the capital after the balloting.
  11. Supporters of Ukraine's Prime Minister and the Presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko, seen on a big screen, hold Ukrainian national flags during a massive rally called "Prayer for Ukraine" in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has threatened a rerun of the 2004 Orange Revolution, when hundreds of thousands of demonstrators protested against a rigged election.
  12. Ukraine's Prime Minister and president candidate Yulia Tymoshenko arrives at a news conference in Kiev February 4, 2010.
  13. Ukraine's Prime Minister and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko (L) faces an empty rostrum where Viktor Yanukovich should have stood in their scheduled 100-minute duel in a TV studio in Kiev, February 1, 2010. Tymoshenko relished a solo performance on television on Monday, heaping insults on arch foe Viktor Yanukovich after he shunned a prime-time debate with her ahead of a presidential run-off on February 7.
  14. Ukraine's Prime Minister and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko (L) faces an empty rostrum where Viktor Yanukovich should have stood in their scheduled 100-minute duel in a TV studio in Kiev, February 1, 2010. Tymoshenko relished a solo performance on television on Monday, heaping insults on arch foe Viktor Yanukovich after he shunned a prime-time debate with her ahead of a presidential run-off on February 7.
  15. Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko (L) toasts champagne with her Moldavian counterpart Vlad Filat after a signing ceremony in Kiev February 1, 2010.
  16. Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko (R) toasts champagne with her Moldavian counterpart Vlad Filat after a signing ceremony in Kiev, February 1, 2010.

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