The cyrillic alphabet is the alphabet used in russian text. it is one of the most __wide__ used alphabets in the world. the alphabet is used in __vary__ languages, including russian, bulgarian, serbian and ukrainian. it began in the __ten__ century in the bulgarian empire. it was created by two greek brothers, cyril and methodius. it was formed from the greek alphabet, although there are many __differ__ between the two. some people would like the alphabet to be called the russian alphabet, to refer to russia, just as the greek alphabet refers to greece. they __agree__ with the name cyrillic. the alphabet recently became the eu’s third __office__ script, after latin and greek, when bulgaria joined the eu.