Worried that the future of the Cyrillic alphabet could be under threat, the Serbian authorities will introduce fines and benefits to defend it against the Latin script, media have reported. Culture ...

Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev has called on his government to begin preparing to shift the nation's alphabet from the Cyrillic—as used by neighbor Russia—to the Latin. Kazakhstan has ...

The decision of the Ministry of Education risks implosion of literacy in the country and could result in a generational rift. After the fall of the Soviet empire there was a cultural impoverishment of ...

BISHKEK -- The five countries of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) have overcome years of disagreements about letters and diacritical marks to agree on a common Latin alphabet for their ...

The Cyrillic alphabet has been the third official alphabet in the European Union along with the Latin and the Greek alphabets since Bulgaria's accession in 2007. It is not by chance that Cyrillic ...

The European Central Bank unveiled yesterday (10 January) a new 5-euro note, with warmed colours and better protection against counterfeiting. For the first time, it also carries the name ‘Euro’ ...

Kazakhstan has announced it will outline a new alphabet by the end of this year as the Central Asian nation plans to change from a Cyrillic-based script to Latin. Kazakh Minister of Education and ...

English aside, there’s more Russian on the Web than any other language and Cyrillic isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Russians would rather give up mayonnaise than switch to the Roman script. Since ...

The number has not been consistent throughout its existence. Russians use an alphabet based on the Cyrillic script. The modern Russian alphabet has 33 letters: 21 consonants, ten vowels and two signs.