site.btaAtlantic Club President Solomon Passy: It Is Time to Rename Cyrillic Script to Bulgarian

“I think it is time our alphabet got its rightful name - Bulgarian, not Cyrillic,” said Atlantic Club President and founder Solomon Passy, participating via videoconference in the 20th World Meeting of Bulgarian Media from BTA’s National Press Club in the northern town of Troyan.

“I think it is high time this alphabet stopped being called Slavic, because Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, and Slovenes have their Latin alphabet,” he added. 

Solomon Passy said that the Bulgarian alphabet  began its recent history in the spring of 2002, when it was agreed with the European Union that it would be  inscribed on euro banknotes.

He noted that we are in the age of AI, and it will abolish, change or create many new professions. This applies to medicine, law and journalism, which is the occasion for the forum. Such seismic shifts have also happened when electricity, the automobile, the steam engine, and many other things appeared. “We are on the verge of huge transformations and that is why I would recommend at this meeting of ours that the Bulgarian media abroad should also be updated and reformed,” Passy said.

“One of the first things I thought should be done is to make digital doubles, avatars or AI agents of key figures and leaders of world and national culture. Since we are hosted by BTA, I would suggest that this experiment begin with creating avatars of Joseph Herbst and Maxim Minchev,” he added. “The world meetings of the Bulgarian media started exactly 20 years ago as a continuation of the relationship they had in the Atlantic Club with the then BTA director Maxim Minchev and with the strong support of the government of Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha,” Passy recalled.