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.