site.btaBulgarian State Institutions to Be Required to Use Bulgarian Cyrillic Fonts Instead of Russian on their Websites

Bulgaria's e-Government Ministry has drawn up new rules for institutional identity of the Bulgarian administrations and has published them for public consultation, e-Government Minister Bozhidar Bozhanov said in a Facebook post.  One of the changes on which he personally insisted is that state institutions use Bulgarian Cyrillic fonts on their websites.

Currently, Russian versions of Cyrillic are widely used by Bulgarian state institutions. “There are now enough fonts that support Bulgarian Cyrillic and we should use them instead,” said Bozhanov.

He said that work on the rules started before the Ukraine war, “but they come at the right moment”. 

He was adamant that the idea is entirely to preserve the Bulgarian identity. “Yes, we are part of the European family and advanced democracies, but we have our specific features and our own alphabet,” Bozhanov wrote in the post.