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.

The Cabinet of Ministers intends to approve the alphabet of the Crimean Tatar language based on the Latin script.Ukrainian News Agency ... Kazakhstan continues to switch to the Latin alphabet. Today, ...

Because the Roman alphabet contains just 26 letters, additional provision has had to be made. The new Kazakh script will use the apostrophe to extend the number of letters to 32.