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Sveta Romanova,
Intelligence Officer
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Other Slavic languages (such as Russian, Ukrainian, Belarussian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian) use variations of the Cyrillic alphabet as a result of the influence of the Orthodox Eastern Church.
From Bulgaria, the cultural center of the medieval Slavs, the Cyrillic alphabet spread to the neighboring countries, such as Serbia, and to the far-lying Eastern Slavs, the Russians, the Ukrainians, and the Belarussians.
The Cyrillic alphabet, in various forms, is used currently in Russian, Ukrainian, Belarussian, Serbian, and Bulgarian, but not in Polish, Czech, Slovak, or Slovenian, which are written in modified Roman alphabets.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Answer: There are two alphabets in Mongolia - the old Mongolian script and a version of the Russian cyrillic script.
Though Mongols developed their own script way back in 13th century, some 50 years ago it was banned and the Russian Cyrillic alphabet imposed as the official script.
He claimed that the Bulgars had taught the Russians the (Cyrillic) alphabet and were responsible for the conversion of Russians to Christianity.
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Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker
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The Cyrillic encodings widely used on the Internet (KOI8, Windows CP 1251 and others) were created on the basis of the Latin and Russian alphabets.
This time, I had the usual apprehension about the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, the hassles with customs and the difficulty in dealing with transportation into the city.
The titles of the Russian books are in the Cyrillic alphabet which is not easily available to most net browsers.
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