Serbia: Push to promote Cyrillic to include incentives and fines

A series of measures are being prepared with the goal of protecting the Serbian variant of the Cyrillic alphabet, the daily Vecernje Novosti writes.

A culture development strategy, that has recently been put up for public debate, envisages tax breaks for newspaper and book publishers printing in Cyrillic, and incentives for companies displaying their names in the official script of the Serbian language.

At the same time, a draft on changes and amendments to the Law on Official Use of Language and Script specifies the treatment of the Serbian language and the Cyrillic alphabet in Serbia's public life, and for the first time, envisages money fines for those braking this law.

The draft, that has been set to the government - states that Cyrillic is the mother script, which, along with the Serbian language, will be used in the overall written and verbal communication...