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National Geographic : 1993 Jul
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Harvest of tradition:Turkish Cypriot olive growers on the north coast beat branches with sticks to bring down thefruit. Turkish Cypriots control most of the grain-growing MesaoriaPlain,while Greek Cypriots remain the majorwine producers. man with cropped gray hair playing with a little girl in the sand. I stop to chat, and he introduces himself as Captain Vladimir Leontiev, a former shipmaster from Odessa, Ukraine, now resettled in Cyprus. He tells me his granddaughter, Anna, is two years old. Leontiev runs a company in Limassol that reflags ex-Soviet ships with Cypriot colors and provides Russian crews for shipowners around the world. Some 2,300 merchant ships fly the Cypriot flag, he tells me, and Cyprus has the world's sixth largest merchant marine. Then, as we watch the setting sun silhouette Aphrodite's rocks above the blue-green water, Leontiev tells me he has traveled around the world, has even lived in Monte Carlo, but enjoys life in Cyprus more than anywhere else. "I am happy here," he says. And he stands up, takes his little granddaughter by the hand, and leads her down the beach for a swim in the sea. Cyprus: A Time of Reckoning
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