Inheritance

24.May 2025. S.Ć.

Rača: Cyrillic Museum opened

The Cyrillic Museum, a unique national institution, was opened in Rača near Baja's garden, in the monastery of which there was a famous copying school.

Publishers 2025

04.January 2025. Sonja Ciric

Titles appropriate to the current moment

Merkel's memoirs at Kontrast Publishing House, "War" and "Autocracy" at Clio, "Belgrade Noir" at Official Gazette, Kadare's "General of the Dead Army" - these are examples from the publisher's plans for this year, which they know will be more difficult than the last.

The case of Cyrillic

27.November 2024. Sonja Ciric

Minister against literacy

Although the Ministry of Culture has decided that from January 1, it will not buy books in Latin for libraries, publishers will continue to publish them. This means that this new measure will not help the Cyrillic alphabet, and that it has deprived libraries of many good and important books. Only the state will save again

Interview

09.November 2024. Sonja Ciric

Vladislava Vojnović: How to promote the Cyrillic alphabet

"Cyrillic is ours too, it's not just theirs - those who use it in the manner of 'divide and conquer' divide us even more than we already are, poor, lonely and terrified that whoever is not with us/them is against us/ them," says the editor of the "AzBučni red" edition, which has been promoting the Cyrillic alphabet for years

Tragedy in Novi Sad

04.November 2024. S.Ć.

Vučić: There is no corruption here, this is a professional error

While visiting "Cirilica", the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, explained to the people who was to blame for the tragedy in Novi Sad, revealed to them that he did not invent the secrecy of the contracts with Chinese companies, but the former ones, and that he would offer the opposition an "advisory referendum" on his own dismissal.

Comment

16.October 2024. Sonja Ciric

Publisher blackmail: Cyrillic forward, Latin stop

The Minister of Culture, Nikola Selaković, was clear and consistent: the state has nothing against publishers publishing in another script, but only books published in the "beautiful Vukova Cyrillic" will be purchased. And immediately. Because there is no cile-mile anymore

Enlighteners of our days: Aleksandar Šapić

09.October 2024. Jovana Gligorijevic

Literacy of Serbs in the street way

The proposal of the mayor of Belgrade, Aleksandar Šapić, to use Cyrillic and English at the Belgrade bus station, as well as on the signs with the names of the streets, raises many questions, and all possible answers are laughable. In the Belgrade municipality of Zvezdara there is a street called Kisela voda. Will it be translated as "Mineral water" or "Sparkling water"

The country and the book

20.September 2024. Sonja Ciric

Publishers on the imposition of the Cyrillic alphabet: Who is still afraid of the Latin alphabet?

"Using both letters preserves the wealth of Serbian cultural heritage and adapts to modern needs," says Zoran Hamović. "And if we are already talking about the Serbian national interest, it could also be adequate and continuous care and support of the state for expanding the presence and influence of Serbian literature in the world," says Jasna Novakov Sibinović.

Writing

15.September 2024. S.Ć.

Nikola Selaković: Three steps to save the Cyrillic alphabet

The first step is mandatory two-alphabet keyboards, the second is about publishers and concerns their economic survival, and the third is announcing new Cyrillic fonts. They were announced by the Minister of Culture, Nikola Selaković, as means in the fight to preserve the Cyrillic alphabet

Serbian language

04.September 2024. S.Ć.

The new spelling will be twice as short, and the language will be without brotherhood-unity

In the orthography prepared by the Serbian Language Council for Serbia and the RS, there will be at least 50 percent fewer rules than in the current one, so for example the "100 comma rules" will be reduced to five - said prof. Miloš Kovačević, a member of that Council. He also noted that the Law on Language and Writing, which was "born from the communist debris of brotherhood-unity" must be changed

Another TV appearance by the President of Serbia

03.October 2023. MN

Aleksandar Vučić: They were afraid of Serbian sophisticated weapons

The President of Serbia explained on the pro-Russian TV channel Happy why the West was bothered by the increased number of Serbian soldiers along the dividing line with Kosovo and what happened in the village of Banjska

Trouble with language

06.September 2023. Ivan Milenkovic

Voodoo Rituals of the Ignorant Legislator

It is amusing (though also terrifying) that an ignorant legislator, whose mouth is full of identity, does not know that language is precisely the armature of identity, and declares it a mere tool

Artificial intelligence

19.July 2023 Branislav Grković

AI revolution: The Serbian language is at risk more than we think

While in Serbia it is being debated whether the name of a bakery should be written in Cyrillic or whether newspapers printed in Cyrillic should receive tax breaks, the revolution of artificial intelligence is roaring next to us, and the state does not understand how it affects not only the survival of the Cyrillic script, but the entire Serbian language

Jovanjica

04.July 2023 A.I

Predrag Koluvija in "Cirilica": Maybe I'm guilty, and maybe I'm not one hundred percent

The owner of the largest skunk plantation in Europe, which, according to the two inspectors who exposed it, was under the protection of state authorities and officials of the MUP and BIA, told how, when he was taken into custody, "he thought it was all a big mistake ", he simply could not understand what was happening, everything the police were saying to him had no logic

Orthodox Easter

14.April 2023 S.Ć.

Patriarch's Easter message: SPC advocates for common life with Albanians in Kosovo

The alienation of Kosovo and Metohija from the state of Serbia is unacceptable, it is necessary to preserve the Serbian language and the Cyrillic alphabet, and abolish the laws on the so-called gender-sensitive language behind which the fight against marriage and the family is hidden, Serbian Patriarch Porfirije told the people in the Easter message