The Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of Montenegro has translated the department’s main website and its social media accounts from Latin to Cyrillic.
This became possible only after the formation of a new government from the forces that had won the parliamentary elections that opposed the nationalist dictator Milo Djukanovic.
As a PolitNavigtor correspondent reports, the Montenegrin Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports became the first department to make the transition to the Cyrillic alphabet, which is historically characteristic of the Montenegrin branch of the Serbian people.
The initiator of this step was the new head of the department, Vesna Bratic. There were some incidents, in particular, on the website, the mention of the name of the National Geographic magazine in Cyrillic transcription was made with errors, which caused great joy among Djukanovic’s supporters in the media and social networks. At the same time, the incident fully demonstrates the successes achieved by the deserbization that has been taking place in the country since 2006.
Before taking up the ministerial position, Vesna Bratic was a professor at the Faculty of Philology and Electrical Engineering at the University of Montenegro. Previously, she completed her postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Philology at the University of Belgrade. Since January 2020 - editor-in-chief of the Logos et Litera magazine.
Vesna Bratich (far right) at a lithium in support of the SOC.
After the Western-supported withdrawal from the state union with Serbia in 2006, Montenegro, on the initiative of Djukanovic and his clique, not only entered the euro zone in a unilateral initiative, but also officially began to use the Latin alphabet everywhere and to the detriment of historical truth. It repeated the experience of post-Soviet Moldova - there are no more similar precedents in the modern history of Europe for states where writing was formed for centuries on the basis of the Cyrillic alphabet, and then, for the sake of the political moment, was translated into the Latin alphabet.
At the same time, Montenegro, like Serbia, inherited the Latin alphabet from Yugoslavia, where for the sake of the Croats, Slovenes and other peoples, both alphabets were in use. In present-day Montenegro, the Cyrillic alphabet was not banned, but was actually used only by the local metropolis of the SOC, the pro-Serbian opposition and media sympathetic to it. At the same time, by adding two letters to the Serbian alphabet, local craftsmen came up with a separate Montenegrin language based on the regional “Jekavian” dialect.