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Morning re-cap of main news, May 20

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* President Vladimir Putin and his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev had a meeting in the southern Russian resort city of Sochi to discuss gas supplies, military cooperation and economic ties

* Moscow police said at least 10 people had been injured in a clash, and 58 soccer fans had been detained after CSKA beat Spartak 3-0 in the final of the Russian Soccer Cup

* Russia's transportation minister, who is leading a government commission on the May 3 crash of an Armenian A-320 airliner, said he still hoped the plane's flight recorders would be found

* A local official said five Russian peacekeepers had been killed and another six wounded when the armored personnel carrier they were traveling overturned in the troubled Georgian region of Abkhazia

* President Viktor Yushchenko said Ukraine's prospective integration into the European Union was mutually beneficial

* The vice president of Russian pipeline company Stroitransgaz said the company was participating in three tenders to build and mend gas pipelines in Algeria

* The interior ministry of the North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria said its officers had detained another three participants of an attack on the capital city of Nalchik in October 2005

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