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 ...

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 ...

As many Slavs mark the Day of Sts Cyril and Methodius, founders of the Glagolitic alphabet, BIRN travels to the Macedonian town of Ohrid, where their disciples, Clement and Naum, created and spread ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

BISHKEK -- Russia has suspended the import of dairy products from Kyrgyzstan after the chairman of Kyrgyzstan’s National Commission for the State Language and Language Policies, Kanybek Osmonaliev, ...

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 ...