Not surprisingly today the Cyprus Finance Minister Michalis Sarris said the country was facing an "emergency".
Also sentenced to life were the city's former general secretary, Michalis Lemoussias, and former treasurer Panagiotis Saxonis.
Finance Minister Michalis Sarris said he expects a decree implementing these capital controls to be ready by midday Wednesday.
In a two-pronged approach to the crisis, Finance Minister Michalis Sarris was in Moscow for meetings with his Russian counterpart.
As lawmakers wrangled, Finance Minister Michalis Sarris was to fly to Moscow Tuesday afternoon to meet with his Russian counterpart.
Earlier this month its executive director, Ilkka Laitinen, went to Athens to finalise the plan with Greece's home-affairs minister, Michalis Chrisochoidis.
Cyprus Finance Minister Michalis Sarris announced a long-awaited series of capital controls.
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The Cypriot Finance Minister Michalis Sarris is in Moscow for a second day to negotiate assistance from Russia, which has multi-billion dollar investments in Cyprus.
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"We have to be clear to protect the financial system and for banks to open Tuesday with a clear picture, " Finance Minister Michalis Sarris said.
Cyprus Finance Minister Michalis Sarris, in Russia to discuss financial support, said talks were "very constructive" but that there was no agreement on potential loans.
Michalis Leontiadis, a spokesman for Puma Security, said his firm has seen a rise in demand recently for night watchmen, especially in Athens's wealthier northern suburbs.
Press reports from Moscow said Wednesday that Cyprus Finance Minister Michalis Sarris failed to win assistance from Russia after the Mediterranean island nation rejected an E.
"It's not that we have won a battle, but we really avoided a disastrous exit from the euro zone, " said Michalis Sarris, the Cypriot finance minister.
Michalis Pilikos, president of national business association OEB said he was waiting to be briefed by Finance Minister Michalis Sarris on the immediate fallout from the deal.
His appointment followed the resignation of Michalis Sarris on Tuesday.
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Cypriot Finance Minister Michalis Sarris arrived in Moscow on Tuesday to see if the repayment on that loan could be delayed until 2020, and whether the interest rate could be reduced.
Cyprus Finance Minister Michalis Sarris has been in Moscow since Tuesday seeking to forge a deal and is due to have more discussions with his Russian counterpart, Anton Siluanov, later Thursday.
President Anastasiades has already said that any suggestion of investors or bank depositors taking a "haircut" on their investments "is not accepted", a view shared by Cypriot Finance Minister Michalis Sarris.
Unfortunately, few of these prisoners enjoyed the international support that was rallied on behalf of Athanasiadis, said Michalis Kosmides, a Greek journalist and vice president of the Foreign Press Association in London.
The Cyprus delegation in Russia led by Finance Minister Michalis Sarris said that Russia does not consider any financial options including the gas offer other than accepting an extension on a 2.5 billion euro loan the island already has with the Russian government.
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It was an even worse start than the Greek's first-half horror show against co-hosts Poland and when the beleagured Chalkias shuffled off to be replaced by Michalis Sifakis midway through the first half, it was hard to tell if he was injured or had simply had enough.
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