May 24 marks a rather unique occasion in Europe's history: it is a day set aside to honour two brothers, Constantine-Cyril and Methodius, the progenitors of the Cyrillic script that is used today from ...

Opposition party says it will seeks education minister's resignation because of what it calls discrimination against the Cyrillic script in schools. This post is also available in this language: Shqip ...

The Kazakh language will change from Cyrillic to Latin script as part of a modernization and development effort. The move is also viewed as an attempt to distance the language from Russian and promote ...

Bulgarians turned out en masse on Saturday to honour the legacy of Saint Cyril and Methodius, the founders of the Cyrillic alphabet, during one of their most important cultural and national holidays ...

To the designers of film posters, I suppose it looks cleverly exotic – but there are 250 million readers of Cyrillic globally, and its misuse grinds our gears, says comedian and author Viv Groskop ...

Amid worries in Serbia over the declining use of the Cyrillic script, Belgrade city hall is introducing benefits for companies that promote the country's traditional alphabet. Sign saying “Republic of ...

The Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic script to the Latin-based style favoured by the West. What are the economics of such a change? The change, announced on a ...

RARELY has the humble apostrophe caused such commotion. Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan’s president, wants the punctuation symbol to play a much bigger part in public life. Ordinary Kazakhs are ...

Cyrillic is an ancient script dating back more than 1,000 years with the earliest form of the alphabet emerging in Bulgaria in the 9th Century. But some Bulgarians have found their Twitter accounts ...