The president's website has no Cyrillic domain "президент.бг", despite President Iliana Iotova's strong push for Cyrillic, Yes, Bulgaria co-chair Bozhidar Bozhanov wrote on Facebook. The party's press office quoted the post.

"If Iotova wants everything to be in Cyrillic so much, why doesn't the presidency have the domain 'президент.бг'?" Bozhanov asked. He said the site uses the Russian form of the Cyrillic letters, not the Bulgarian one.

Bozhanov recalled a rule under the Electronic Governance Act that he wrote himself a decade ago. It requires official domains of public bodies to use the national top-level domains: ".bg" in Latin letters and ".бг" in Cyrillic.

Formally, the president is not a public body, Bozhanov admitted. But with such a "hard fight" for Cyrillic, he said, the general rule should have applied to the presidency too. In his view, keeping a "президент.бг" domain is not just a technical option but a duty.

As e-government minister, Bozhanov started an initiative for a Bulgarian form of Cyrillic. It means, for example, that the lowercase "г" and "т" look like the handwritten ones, not like the capital print letters. He published the rules for public discussion, and they were then adopted. Under them, websites may use only fonts with the characters of the Bulgarian form. A number of institutions have already changed the fonts on their sites.

"Clearly, the fight for Cyrillic is only in words," Bozhanov wrote. As for the letters themselves, he said, Iotova builds on his initiatives over the years. He noted that Iotova has been president for 9 months and was vice president for 9 years before that.

At the end of March, the third International Cyrillic Forum took place on Iotova's initiative, under the theme "Spiritual Heritage in the Digital Age". In her welcome address, the president called the alphabet and the language Bulgaria's most valuable heritage and the basis of national identity. She called on people to protect and develop the Bulgarian language in the digital age.