Russian speakers love living here, they like to be in a community and ours is growing all the time, says Ruslan Ibrayev, the salesman greeting customers at the head office of the Hub property investment firm in Iskele in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus.
Cyprus, an EU member state, has long served as an important offshore financial centre for wealthy Russians who have favoured the Mediterranean island as a gateway to move their fortunes out of their home country and into Europe.
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