Mongolia has announced plans to restore the use of its traditional alphabet by 2025, replacing the Cyrillic script adopted under the Soviets as it moves away from Russian influence. It will take ...

The Mongolian government on March 18 announced plans to restore the use of its traditional alphabet by 2025, replacing the Cyrillic script adopted in the 1940s under the Soviets in a move away from ...

Starting in the 1940s, however, Mongolia adopted a new script, based on the Cyrillic alphabet, which replaced bichig. Apart from the tradition of using both the Cyrillic and bichig alphabets in ...

Hundreds of people gathered to lay flowers at the base of the statue of Cyril and Methodius, creators of the Glagolitic script, which later evolved into the Cyrillic alphabet, in central Sofia, the ...

A 5-meter-tall monument to the Cyrillic alphabet is to be unveiled by Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev during his visit to Mongolia on May 11. President Plevneliev is in the country to mark 65 ...