The University of Montenegro promised to install signs in Cyrillic
The University of Montenegro responded to the request of the Serbian National Council to install signs in Cyrillic in the university buildings.
The rector of the university, Vladimir Bozhovich, promised to resolve the issue as soon as possible, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
To its request, the Serbian National Council received a response from the University of Montenegro signed by the rector, Professor Vladimir Bozovic.
“In accordance with Articles 13 and 79 of the Constitution of Montenegro, we consider your request to be justified. However, given that the University has 24 organizational units, and the implementation of the initiative will require time and the involvement of human and material resources, we inform you that we will begin to implement the request as soon as possible,” the received document said.
Earlier, the organization issued an appeal in which it indicated that the absence of the Cyrillic alphabet on the facades of official institutions in Montenegro “violates the constitutional provisions of the country guaranteeing equal use of the Cyrillic and Latin alphabet.”
“The Cyrillic alphabet has been and remains one of the foundations of our identity. Refusal of it means a break with our cultural and spiritual identity, from our cultural heritage. Cyrillic today in Montenegro has the status of only a permitted, but not an equal and obligatory letter. All government administration and official correspondence are conducted in the Latin alphabet, completely ignoring the Cyrillic alphabet,” the Serbian National Council said in a statement.
After separating from Serbia in 2006, the Montenegrin authorities set a clear course towards the West. And in order to be more different from Serbia, they began an unofficial transition from the Cyrillic dictionary, in which their ancestors had written for centuries, to Latin.
At the same time, even more often at the official level, even the name of the country was pronounced in the Italian manner - Montenegro. Thus, the Montenegrin elite repeated the crime of post-Soviet Moldova, which, to please the West, declaring a break with Moscow, abandoned the Cyrillic alphabet, which Moldovans had used for centuries, in favor of the Latin alphabet.
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