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.
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
At the meeting of the Council for the Serbian Language, it was proposed that portal editors proofread Croatian news, that RTS repeat the series "Vuk Karadžić" and that the National Library check what is happening with Serbian books printed in Latin
"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
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.
At the Book Fair, not one of the 500 programs is devoted to the Cyrillic alphabet. And if it was, it was possible to publicly seek an answer to the question of whether insisting on the Cyrillic alphabet endangers the spread of the Serbian language, literature, science, art...
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
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"
Šapić announced that signs and notices at the new bus station will be written in Cyrillic and in English. In addition, the Minister of Culture announced measures that would bring the Cyrillic alphabet back among Serbs in a big way
The National Library of Serbia says that the information about Serbian books that become Croatian property is not correct. As if it was all signed by Sreten Ugričić
"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.
Of the three steps announced by the Minister of Culture, Nikola Selaković, in order to restore the use of the Cyrillic alphabet, one is meaningless, the second is harmful, and the third is nothing new.
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
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
Ten large-format paintings that were chosen for the exhibition in the Modern Gallery, Belgrade, languished in the basement for 40 years, rolled up like carpets.
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
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
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
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
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
In theory, the fight against corruption is often compared to the fight against malaria. To beat malaria, you have to drain the swamp. There will still be mosquitoes, but there will be no disease. I would like Aleksandar Vučić to read this when he is not Boris Tadić
