Turkmenistan's football champion MTTU, trained by honored coach of Turkmenistan Yazkuli Hodzhageldyev, reached semifinals of the 18th International Cup of Champions of the CIS and Baltic States - 2010 in Moscow.

The financial-industrial group "Altcom" (Donetsk, Ukraine) will begin construction of a road bridge, Atamurat-Kerkichi, across the Amu Darya river in Turkmenistan before April of this year. This was reported by the company's deputy general director Mikhail Kovalev in an interview with the internet portal "Trans-Port."

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov will soon pay an official visit the Republic of Belarus at the head of the governmental delegation of Turkmenistan. The preparations and a program of the forthcoming visit were discussed yesterday at a regular meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan.

These December days marked by the historic meetings in the Turkmen land, undoubtedly, have occupied a special place in the global political calendar, particularly in the light the endeavours to build the new architecture of global energy security as well as the high effectiveness of the intergovernmental agreements – both implemented and new, which were reached during the recent visits of President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov, President of the People’s Republic of China Hu Jintao and President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbaev to Turkmenistan.