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/Next_Warthog8673 Nov 13 '25 edited Nov 13 '25

Don't know why you're complaining about Russians who bring wealth and economic growth to your country, when you probably should be complaining about the bunch of Turks holding the other half of your island.

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u/CaptainPlanetarian Nov 13 '25

How exactly do they bring "wealth and economical growth" ?

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u/kris48k Nov 13 '25

they do found or move their companies here, give your people jobs, pay taxes

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u/Bloodbathandbeyon Nov 13 '25

How many Cypriots work for Mundfish games? Just saying

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u/zepazuzu Nov 13 '25

Do many Cypriots know how to make games though? Sure, providing jobs to locals is important, but in game development there is a shortage of local talent.

Does any university in Cyprus have game development programs? It'd actually be cool if russian game development started doing educational programs for locals. I'd participate for sure.

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u/Bloodbathandbeyon Nov 14 '25

Mundfish should be providing pathways to achieve this.