Russians use an alphabet based on the Cyrillic script. The modern Russian alphabet has 33 letters: 21 consonants, ten vowels and two signs. Yet it wasn’t always like that.

There are various hypotheses about the creation of the Cyrillic alphabet. Some researchers believe that the Glagolitic alphabet was modified by their Bulgarian students, St Kliment of Ohrid and St ...

One of the first acts of legislation voted by Azerbaijan's parliament after the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 was to adopt a Latin script to replace the Cyrillic alphabet forcibly imposed on ...

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 ...

Today, the Cyrillic alphabet is used by Slavic, Turkic, Uralic, Caucasian and other nations, including Mongolia, which adopted it in 1941. FILE; Bulgaria in Sofia mark one of its most important ...

IRIB reported on Monday that the manager of Al-Mahdi publishers in Tajikiistan, Mohammadbari, announced that since the Tajik people are interested in works about their ancestors such as "The History ...

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 ...