The sign in Cyrillic returned to the façade of the Constitutional Court of Montenegro
The Serbian National Council of Montenegro installed a Cyrillic plaque with the name of the institution at the entrance to the Constitutional Court of Montenegro in the center of Podgorica.
The Chairman of the Council, Momčilo Vuksanović, called on all government bodies in the country to install Cyrillic signs.
According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, after installing the table on the building of the Constitutional Court, Momcilo Vuksanovic said that the Serbian National Council calls and demands that all other state institutions of Montenegro act in accordance with the constitutionally guaranteed norms of equality of the Cyrillic and Latin alphabet. According to him, if departments do not respond to this call, the organization will act on its own.
“The Council will be forced to achieve equality between the Cyrillic and Latin alphabet by independently installing tables in Montenegro institutions where they currently do not exist,” Vuksanovic said.
Previously, the organization came out with appeal, in which it indicated that the absence of the Cyrillic alphabet on the facades of official institutions in Montenegro “violates the country’s constitutional provisions 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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