A number of criteria was used to pick the winners, including market share, number and volume of transactions, quality of service, among others.

“Karapetyan and the new government continue dynamically introducing development projects, retaining public trust,” Ashotyan said.

The process was organized with the mediation of the personal representative of the OSCE chairperson-in-office.

In July, the Turkish government survived a failed military coup attempt blamed on the followers of a U.S.-based Muslim cleric.

The Admiral Grigorovich is the first in the class of six frigates commissioned by the Russian navy in 2010 for its Black Sea Fleet.

The abductions are the latest in a spree of Sinai attacks, including several targeting Christian residents.

They were all taken to various ports in southern Spain such as Almeria and Motril, where they were attended to by the Red Cross.

The Israeli military said it had targeted five Hamas positions throughout Gaza in response to the earlier rocket strike.

Iraqi forces captured eastern Mosul in January, after 100 days of fighting. They launched their attack on the districts that lie west of the Tigris a week ago.

Incubus announced their return last week with the new single “Nimble Bastard”, which is taken from their forthcoming eighth album “8”.