Students in the Siberian city of Irkutsk can now learn the Russian alphabet together with a hearty helping of the new political correctness, "The Siberian Times" reported on May 5. A pro-Kremlin group ...
The Wall Street Journal has a long, charming article on the ups and downs of a Russian letter that is fading from the vernacular. The Cyrillic-alphabet letter, ë, is pronounced "yo." Apparently, ...
In his Essay about the Phaistos Disc ('A century of puzzling' Nature 453, 990–991; 2008), Andrew Robinson notes that the largest known alphabet is Russian, with 36 letters. In fact, the Russian ...