Это произошло в Вене на турнире UNIQA Grand Prix с призовым фондом в $400,000. В финале Ирода переиграла швейцарку Патти Шнидер - 6:3, 6:2 за 67 минут. Всего это была её вторая победа в карьере на турнирах WTA. По дороге в финал ею были повержены такие игроки, как Елена Дементьева, Паолу Суарез, М. Морреро.

Эта победа позволила ей в табели о рангах подняться с 48 на 34 место. В 1998 году Ирода была 570-ой, в 1999 поднялась на 188 место, в 2000 году пробилась в первую сотню (75).

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Узбекская делегация выразила желание познакомиться с опытом строительства автомобильных дорог, накопленным за последние 20 лет в Волгоградской области. Этот опыт считается уникальным, так как на территории региона ведется много строительных работ по сооружению мостов и автотрасс, а роль Волжской гидроэлектростанции, как транспортного объекта, соединяющего берега Волги, вызывает особый интерес у профессионалов.

Узбекская делегация представила проект международной автомагистрали, в котором, помимо прочего, предусмотрено и использование строящегося сейчас мостового перехода через Волгу. Реализация этого проекта уже началась на территории Узбекистана и Казахстана. Детали сотрудничества с волгоградской областью будут обсуждены после завершения переговоров узбекской стороны с представителями всех регионов, по территории которых пройдет новая автодорога.

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It signed the agreement for the two exploration licenses located around the Balpantau and Aristantau deposits with the State Committee of Geology of Uzbekistan, it added.

Exploration on these areas will be carried out with the intention of increasing the existing heap-leaching mineable reserves at Amantaytau Goldfields.

Oxus said it plans to carry out a detailed drilling programme on the two properties to increase the mineable reserves for the nearby Amantaytau heap leach project.

Capital costs are estimated at 35 mln usd and the feasibility study shows an estimated cash operating cost of 113 usd an ounce. At a gold price of 265 usd per ounce Oxus has an internal rate of return, after tax and ungeared, of 26.4 pct, it said.

Start-up is planned for the second half of 2002 with first full year production expected to be around 170,000 ounces of gold.

The second phase of the Amantaytau project is the development of an underground operation that is scheduled to start production in the first quarter of 2005.

The average annual production is expected to be 190,000 ounces of gold a year over a 10-year mine life at an average cash cost of 115 usd an ounce.

Oxus said the total output from the combined open pit and underground operations is expected to be more than 2.6 mln ounces of gold and 6.6 mln ounces of silver over the 14-year mine life.

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In a Group A match, the national futsal team of Japan narrowly beat Taiwan 6-5 while Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, two teams of Group B, played and the Tajiks won the indoor football derby 7-1.

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Rice will begin arriving at the port Monday in anticipation of the ships' arrival in early August. The Liberty Grace, an American-flagged carrier on its maiden voyage, will take on 34,000 tons over a 10-day period before beginning a three-week-long voyage to the Black Sea port of Batumi.

It will be followed by the Aurora Emerald, a foreign-flag ship, which is scheduled to receive 12,000 metric tons of relief rice at the Port of Sacramento before moving to Stockton to top off its cargo with a final 3,874 tons.

For its part, the port should receive about $450,000 in revenues, said Richard Aschieris, port director.

We're pretty thrilled, he said.

He noted that port officials secured the shipping contact during a rice-industry convention in Florida, the first time that Port of Stockton representatives had attended that event.

Ron Coale, chairman of the Stockton Port Commission, said Friday that the rice shipments should create about 150 jobs for longshore workers. And that volume of rice amounts to nearly 1,600 truckloads, the long-time trucking-industry representative said.

Of course, that's the main thrust, Coale said. We're looking at (creating) jobs for the community.

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The unseeded Tulyaganova captured the UNIQA Grand Prix claycourt event with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over eighth-seeded Patty Schnyder of Switzerland.

Tulyaganova, 19, also triumphed at Tashkent in 2000. In addition, she appeared in the finals at Shanghai last year.

"I am very happy to have won this week," Tulyaganova said. "I have played very well and felt good the whole week. I have been doing so much work over the past few months at home, running, cycling, plus tennis."

The victory should move Tulyaganova to a new career-high ranking in the mid-30s. She is currently ranked No. 48 on the WTA Tour.

"I will enjoy this today but tomorrow I go to Knokke-Heist and I have to play again, it's a new week."

Schnyder, who won the title here in 1998 and was a finalist last year, was coming off a three-hour semifinal.

"It was an advantage for her to play a much shorter match yesterday than me when it had cooled down a little bit," said Schnyder. "But Iroda played very well in the first set and I had no chance."

Tulyaganova took home a first prize of $27,000.

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"Recently, water was brought to an area of 150 ha in the remotest villages of the Uzunbuloq farm in Bakhmal District. As a result, a total of 200 young people in the villages of Oray, Tengeli and Qurbonzor and Uzunbuloq have been provided with permanent jobs," the report said.

The television said, over video of mountain villages and people watering agricultural fields, that plots of land were being distributed in these villages.

"Our zone is, for the most part, a mountainous one. There is no water. We all depended on the weather. At the moment, our people are very happy. You see that all the people have come here. Wherever possible, we are distributing 0.2, 0.3, 0.15 or 0.5 ha of land to people, depending on their ability to cultivate plants, for instance, potatoes and vegetables," a man captioned as the head of a leasing company, Ochil Abdullayev, said.

The report also said that a new pumping station had been commissioned in Yangiyer District.

"A new pumping station, designed to pump 30 cc of water per second to a height of 75 m, produced in the Czech Republic and recently put into operation, plays an important part in making land in Yangiyer arable. By the end of this year, the station will help to bring water to 50 ha of land in the District. It is planned next year to bring water to a further 100 ha of land by using this installation," the report said over video of people at a new pumping station.

The report added that significant work had been done to provide the population of Yangiyer District with natural gas over the past six months.

"So far, 26 km of medium and high-pressure gas pipelines have been commissioned in the District," the report said over video of workers building a new gas pipeline in a village and people at a gas distribution station.

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The action had been well prepared, by all accounts. The women arrived at the administration building in small groups, and, as soon as the police arrested the demonstrators, they were immediately replaced by others. The participants in the demonstration managed in this way to increase the number of people who witnessed what was going on...

Hizb-ut-Tahrir was even recently in Central Asia demonstratively eschewing public actions. The main emphasis was put on the illegal distribution of leaflets. It is significant that in conversations with your Nezavisimaya Gazeta correspondent members of the organization would emphasize that it was absolutely immaterial to them whether the world learned of their associates languishing in jail since "the brethren are joyfully suffering for the faith." They stressed here that their main goal was propaganda among Muslims, and the reputation of a party among "kaffirs" was of no significance.

Today, though, the Islamists in the region have changed tactics and are attempting to call the attention of the world community to their problems.

The new tactics adopted by the radicals probably mean that the leadership of the organization considers the objectives of the first stage of the struggle to have been successfully accomplished. According to party strategy, incidentally, its entire activity is broken down into several periods (depending on the readiness of the citizenry to live according to Sharia laws), and each is characterized by its own tactics. It is notable that it was decided this April to split the Central Asian branch of Hizb-ut-Tahrir into two regional entities owing to the fact that the differing political situation in the countries of the region was forcing the members of the underground organization to vary their tactics.

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Drugs-related crimes have been registered in 36 of the 54 neighbourhoods in the town. Over the past five years, the number of people selling and taking heroin and marijuana increased eight- or tenfold.

More and more women are getting involved in drug dealing. In the town of Fergana alone, criminal proceedings have been instituted against 16 women on charges of selling, possessing and taking drugs, since the beginning of 2000. In all 140 women have been registered by a rehabilitation centre for drug addicts.

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Interfax-Kazakhstan obtained a press release issued by the Kaztransgaz closed joint-stock company which says that under the agreement, the Uzbek side must supply the necessary amounts of gas to Kazakhstan at agreed prices annually in the next five years. This will make it possible to avoid a shortage of gas, which southern regions of Kazakhstan have been experiencing from time to time.

Moreover, according to the press release, the companies concluded a contract on gas supplies, under which Kaztransgaz will buy the necessary amount of gas from Uztransgaz at 40 dollars per 1,000 cu.m. by paying for it in advance. As a result of negotiations between the sides, which started in spring this year, the price remains unchanged although the Uzbek side wanted to raise it.

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The US embassy in Tashkent made public on Friday [13 July] a State Department statement saying that the administration is deeply concerned about the report that human rights activist Shovruk Ruzimuradov, a former member of the Uzbek parliament, died recently in police custody due to torture and beatings.

Such incidents obstruct the expansion of mutually beneficial relations between the United States and Uzbekistan, the statement says. The State Department has called on the Uzbek government to carry out a thorough, just and unbiased investigation into Ruzimuradov's incarceration and death, it says.

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