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Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides will have bilateral meetings with his counterparts of Estonia and Ukraine in the informal meeting of the European Union’s foreign ministers, which will be taking ...

A pro-Russia rally held in Limassol on Saturday drew ire and sarcasm from Twitter users. In a short video-clip posted on Twitter by one user, it shows people close to ...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Saturday the United Nations is working with the United States and European Union to overcome obstacles to Russian food and fertilisers reaching world ...

Cyprus opposes a possible visa ban on Russian citizens, permanent secretary of the foreign ministry Kornelios Korneliou said on Saturday, as the EU considers such a ban due to Russia’...

Russian stocks slipped from multi-week highs on Wednesday and the rouble turned lower against the dollar and euro, as falling oil prices outweighed the effect of upcoming tax payments that ...

Russian opponents of Moscow’s war in Ukraine who live in Cyprus say they are being targeted by Russian propaganda to the point of veiled death threats but Cypriot authorities ...

ussia has not communicated to NASA its intent to withdraw from the International Space Station in 2024, a senior official with the U.S. agency told Reuters, as Russia’s new ...

The Joint Coordination Centre (JCC), established as part of a landmark deal to resume grain exports from Ukraine, has started work in Istanbul, Russia’s defence ministry said on Tuesday ...

Bullying, publicly revealing private information, the ripping of a Russian flag and demonstrations against Russian nationals, were cited in a report circulated by the Russian embassy on Tuesday although the ...

Paphos hoteliers association Thanos Michaelides on Saturday said the hotel occupancy rate in the district will reach approximately 80 per cent in July, an improvement over June’s 70 per cent. However, ...

The United States is actively trying to resolve WNBA star Brittney Griner’s detention in Russia, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters on Tuesday, reiterating Washington’s ...

Our office spoke over the phone to a Reuters journalist who wondered why there has been no strong reaction from Cyprus to EU proposals such as banning the purchase of ...

Only one in two Cypriots agree with EU’s sanctions against Russia as opposed to a whopping 80 per cent EU average, according to the latest Eurobarometer carried out this year. ...

Limassol Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Evel) president Andreas Tsouloftas on Thursday expressed optimism about Limassol’s prospects, despite the challenges posed by high inflation and the war in Ukraine. ...

Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos on Friday ordered an investigation into whether two Cyprus-registered planes owned by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich were linked to illegal activity. It surfaced the previous day ...

A group called Russians in Cyprus Against war (RAW) are organising a demonstration in Limassol demanding that political prisoners in Russia be released. The rally will take place at 5pm ...

While expressing satisfaction with an agreement reached by EU leaders overnight for a sixth round of sanctions against Russia, Government Spokesman Marios Pelekanos also warned of their consequences. “Given the ...

Cyprus is a constructive participant in EU-wide discussions on sanctions against Russia, government spokesman Marios Pelekanos said on Monday. He was speaking from Brussels, where he is accompanying President Nicos ...

‘Promises come and go and nothing happens. And our authorities carry on doing it’ When it comes to gas development Cyprus definitely talks the talk – but can it walk the ...

President Nikos Anastasiades told France24 in an interview aired on Thursday that Russian and Turkish revisionism were comparable, that he remains firm on bizonal bicommunal federation, and that seizing Russian ...

Hotels in the Famagusta region are expected to see 80 per cent occupancy rates through local interest over the weekend of Kataklysmos, the festival of the flood, from June 10 to 13, they ...

President Nicos Anastasiades took part in a teleconference of EU leaders on Monday chaired by president of the European Council Charles Michel, centred on Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. ...

McDonald’s franchisees in Russia will have the option of working under a new brand that will launch imminently, the TASS news agency quoted Oleg Paroev, McDonald’s Russia’s ...

Russia’s Gazprom has informed Finland it will halt flows of natural gas from Saturday morning, Gasum said on Friday, after the Finnish state-owned gas wholesaler refused to pay its ...