Galleries, fashion houses, and big brands are all lining up to work with the self-taught Russian. In a matter of just a few years, a 27-year-old artist from the town of Korolyov in the Moscow Region ...

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 ...

A change in the law on the languages of the peoples of the Russian Federation is about to make Cyrillic the only legal alphabet for official languages. The move is designed to preserve linguistic ...

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 ...

As Russia’s war in Ukraine rages on, a quiet cultural shift is unfolding in the region's written language—marked by a move away from the Cyrillic script in favour of Latin letters, says Maria ...

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 ...

Third change in less than 100 years partly aims to distance country from Russia and make it simpler to use on digital devices Kazakhstan is to change its official alphabet for the third time in less ...

Amid fears that the national script is losing out to Latin letters, Serbia’s Culture Ministry is proposing changing the law to better protect its use. Photo: Pxhere Against a background of fears that ...