She made the proposal in her speech at a forum entitled “The Russian world and the Russian language: Historical roots and directions of development,”.
“The shift to the Latin and Arabic alphabets has been widely discussed in the past decade. We need to readopt a common alphabet in the CIS zone. And that’s the Cyrillic alphabet. Surveys point to the fact that our population and people residing in our vicinity think it is necessary to shift to the Cyrillic alphabet,” the minister said.
She pointed out that Russia must hold on to its stance on the spread of the Cyrillic alphabet, adding that “this stance has weakened to some extent in the last two decades.”
It is noteworthy that following the collapse of the Soviet Union Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan made a shift from the Cyrillic alphabet to the Latin alphabet. The Kazakhstan has said that the country will have made a complete shift to the Latin alphabet by 2025.
Russian Education Minister proposes CIS countries readopt Cyrillic alphabet
06 June 2017
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Russia’s Minister of Education and Science Olga Vasilyeva has proposed CIS countries readopt the Cyrillic alphabet.
