Efstathios "Tassos" Nikolaou Papadopoulos was a Cypriot politician and barrister,who served as President of Cyprus from 2003 to 2008.
Georgios Grivas,also known by his nickname Digenis,was the Cypriot founder and leader of the Greek and Greek Cypriot paramilitary organisations Organization X (1942–1949),EOKA (1955–1959) and EOKA B (1971–1974).
Vassos Lyssarides was a Cypriot politician and physician who was a central figure in the politics of Cyprus after the island's independence.
The National Popular Front is a far-right,ultranationalist and fascist movement,founded in 2008 in the Republic of Cyprus. It describes its ideology as "popular and social nationalism". As of May 2011,it has been approved as a legal political party. ELAM is a Eurosceptic political party which also praises Greek former dictator Ioannis Metaxas.
The 2012–2013 Cypriot financial crisis was an economic crisis in the Republic of Cyprus that involved the exposure of Cypriot banks to overleveraged local property companies,the Greek government-debt crisis,the downgrading of the Cypriot government's bond credit rating to junk status by international credit rating agencies,the consequential inability to refund its state expenses from the international markets and the reluctance of the government to restructure the troubled Cypriot financial sector.
Sappho Leontias was a Cypriot writer,feminist,and educator.
Christos Stylianides is a Greek Cypriot politician who since September 13,2023 serves as Minister of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy of Greece. From September 2021 to May 2023 served as Greece's first Minister for Climate Crisis and Civil Protection. On June 26 he was elected Member of the Hellenic Parliament with the governing New Democracy Party (ND). He has previously served as the European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management from 2014 until 2019. In 2014,he was also appointed by the European Council as the European Union's Ebola Coordinator. He was also elected as a Member of the European Parliament in the May 2014 European elections where he served until 31 October 2014.
AEK Arena –Georgios Karapatakis is a football stadium in Larnaca,Cyprus. Completed in 2016,it is the home ground of AEK Larnaca and has a total seating capacity of 8,058. Since 2021,it also hosts the home games of the Cyprus national team.
Volt Europa is a pro-European and European federalist political party,which is organized as a pan-European umbrella for subsidiary parties of the same name and branding in all EU member states and several non-EU states,including Albania,Switzerland,Ukraine,and the United Kingdom.
The 2024 European Parliament elections in Cyprus will be held on 9 June 2024 as part of the 2024 European Parliament election.
Katerina Sakellaropoulou is a Greek judge who has been the president of Greece since 13 March 2020. She was elected by the Hellenic Parliament to succeed Prokopis Pavlopoulos on 22 January 2020. Prior to her election as president,Sakellaropoulou served as president of the Council of State,the highest administrative court of Greece. She is the country's first female president.
The Generation Change is a centre-left political party in Cyprus led by Anna Theologou.
Annita Demetriou is a Cypriot politician,who serves as President of the Cypriot House of Representatives since June 2021,and as the President of the Democratic Rally (DISY) since March 2023. The latter role effectively designates her as the Leader of Opposition to the incumbent Christodoulides government.
The 2021–22 Cypriot Cup was the 80th edition of the Cypriot Cup. A total of 23 clubs entered the competition. It began in September 2021 with the first round and concluded on 25 May 2022 with the final held at the GSP Stadium. Omonia FC won the Cup for the 15th time and qualified for the 2022–23 Europa League play-off round.
Presidential elections were held in Cyprus on 5 February 2023. No candidate received a majority of the vote in the first round,so a runoff was held on 12 February. Incumbent president Nicos Anastasiades of the Democratic Rally (DISY),who won the presidential elections in 2013 and 2018,was ineligible to run due to the two-term limit mandated by the Constitution of Cyprus.
New Wave –The Other Cyprus was a political movement in the Republic of Cyprus. The movement's main stated goal was to mobilize society for reform and new prospects for Cyprus and the young people of the country.
Cyprus is one of four European Union (EU) member states which is not a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO),and the only one not to participate in NATO's Partnership for Peace (PfP) program. The others are Austria,Ireland and Malta.
The Special Forces Command is a combat arm of the Cypriot National Guard. The primary mission of the Special Forces is unorthodox warfare and this is the purpose for which they began their training in 1964,primarily in the Troodos Mountains,while shortly after,he began operations against Turkish Cypriot rebels and the Turkish forces operating on the island.
Volt Cyprus is a political party in Cyprus and the Cyprus branch of Volt Europa,a Eurofederalist pan-European political party and movement,which advocates for greater European cooperation across Europe.
The Special Antiterrorist Squad,is the elite counterterrorism unit of the Cyprus Police force. The unit was formed in 1978 and falls under the operational umbrella of the Mobile Immediate Action Unit.
