The diplomat quoted the words of the head of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine Oleksandr Tkachenko, who said that "borscht is officially Ukrainian."
“Oleksandra, is Ukrainian borscht recognized as an intangible value that needs to be immediately protected?
Too bad they just ate it before.
Our borsch does not need protection, but is subject to immediate and complete destruction on a plate, ”Zakharova wrote on Telegram.
She also recalled that hummus and pilaf, for example, are recognized as national dishes of several nations at once.
“But, as I understand it, everything is subject to Ukrainization.
What's next?
Recognition of pork as a “Ukrainian national product”?
By the way, note to nationalists who hate everything Russian.
From the first mention of borscht (in the travel notes of the Danzig merchant M. Gruneweg, 1584-1585) it follows that this is a dish of the Russian inhabitants of Kyiv.
Live with it now,” said the representative of the Foreign Ministry.
On July 1, the Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of the Intangible Cultural Heritage included the culture of Ukrainian borscht in the list of intangible heritage in need of urgent protection.
As Alexander Kuznetsov, Russian Permanent Representative to UNESCO, noted, the Ukrainian delegation defiantly writes the word “Russia” with a lowercase letter and believes that Moscow poses a threat to “Ukrainian borscht”.