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Morning re-cap of main news, July 7

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* The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) completed an inquiry into an ex-security officer's claim on spying for the British intelligence and launched a criminal case on espionage charges

* Vyacheslav Zharko, a Russian ex-security service officer who admitted earlier working for British intelligence, said murdered Alexander Litvinenko and fugitive Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky introduced him to MI6

* A Russian Proton-M carrier rocket successfully delivered a U.S. telecommunications satellite, DirecTV-10, into orbit, Russia's space agency said

* Russia will build reserve airports in southern cities of Gelendzhik, Mineralnye Vody and Krasnodar by 2009 to increase passengers turnover for the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Transportation Minister Igor Levitin said

* Georgian military police discovered a large arms cache on the territory of the former Russian military base in Akhalkalaki, in the south of the country, a military police official said

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