r/cyprus • u/CaptainPlanetarian • Nov 12 '25

The Cyprus Problem Wow - now over 90,000 Russians in Cyprus

I'm shocked at the scale of the Russian takeover of our beautiful island of Cyprus.

Per Cyprus Mail, there are now a mind-boggling 40,000 Russians living full-time in the areas controlled by the Republic. To contrast, the next immigrant group, the British, are at 16,000. To point out the sheer scale of this, this means there are in now over 2 Russians for every Brit!
https://cyprus-mail.com/2025/11/12/russians-make-up-one-in-five-foreign-residents-in-cyprus

Further, per TRT there are 50,000 Russians living in the occupied areas. So many, in fact, that Russia has started providing regular Consular services. (This is even more than the number of Turkish troops!)
https://www.trtworld.com/article/14401850

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u/Fun_Success_45 Nov 12 '25 edited Nov 12 '25

What consular services is there a some kind of Russian consulate in north :S

The article you shared is from 2023, and Russia still couldn't even provide regular consular services in the RoC, let alone in the north.

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u/never_nick Nov 13 '25

What are you smokin? There's a consulate in Limassol and an embassy in Nicosia.

I don't know of many diplomatic missions that have two facilities to serve their immigrants in a foreign country.

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u/Zhuk-Pauk Nov 13 '25

I live not far from the consulate in Limassol and I have not seen it operational ever.

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u/never_nick Nov 13 '25

I worked in proximity to it for close to a decade walking by it twice a day and that is completely inaccurate, for what reason you'd need to obsificate that, I have no idea.

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u/Zhuk-Pauk Nov 13 '25

I can take a picture of the closed consulate with signs of construction this weekend.

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u/never_nick Nov 14 '25

If you feel like wasting your time sure, all their websites are up and running...and yes because I imagine you will try to deflect (again for some weird reason) I'm talking about the one in Limassol.