He said ATM machines at Larnaca and Paphos international airports -- and all tourist resorts -- were working normally.

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That measure has attracted some 50, 000 Russians, mostly businessmen, to take up residence in the coastal cities of Limassol, Larnaca and Paphos.

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Along the highway to Paphos, the city on the western coast where Aphrodite was born, nearly all of the billboards are for property developers.

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