Petros Giannakouris/Associated Press
At a rally outside Parliament on Friday to protest the bailout terms, a Russian woman who lives in Cyprus held a sign written in Russian, English and Greek.
With Cyprus’s role as a provider of financial services for Russians, what began as another episode in a familiar narrative has escalated into a drama with geopolitical implications.
By JAMES KANTER and LIZ ALDERMAN
European finance ministers and Cyprus officials face a Monday deadline, when the European Central Bank has threatened to cut off the financing that is keeping the country’s banks from collapsing.