The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, responded to the head of the Latvian Foreign Ministry, Edgar Rinkevich, to the words addressed to her personally about Ukrainian borscht. The head of the Latvian department on July 2, after it became known about the inclusion of Ukrainian borscht in the UNESCO World Heritage List, sharply addressed the Russian representative of the Foreign Ministry.
“Like it, don’t like it, be patient, my beauty,” he wrote to Zakharova on Twitter.
To which she hinted to him about the rampant non-traditional relations in his country and that she was not a citizen of Latvia.
“Edgar, you are not for beauties. Find yourself a handsome man, and let him endure. And I’m not yours. Or is this another coming-out?” the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs pointed out in her Telegram channel.
On the eve of the culture of cooking Ukrainian borscht was included in the list of intangible cultural heritage of UNESCO. As the organization pointed out on its website, the culture of preparing Ukrainian borscht “needs urgent protection.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine submitted a corresponding application back in March last year, and this issue was to be considered by the organization’s committee only in 2023. However, Ukraine again appealed to UNESCO with a request to expedite the consideration of the application, pointing out that the current events in the country “negatively affect this tradition.” Kyiv’s request was approved.
Earlier, on February 7, the same phrase “like it, don’t like it, be patient, my beauty” was heard following negotiations with French President Emmanuel Macron in Moscow from Russian President Vladimir Putin. So the Russian leader commented on the statement of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who said that he did not like any of the clauses of the Minsk agreements. Putin pointed out that there is no alternative to agreements.
On February 10, Putin clarified that the statement he made had no “personal dimension.” And by it, he meant only the need for Kyiv to fulfill the Minsk agreements.
Later, the Ukrainian leader commented on the phrase said by Putin. Zelensky agreed that Ukraine is “beautiful”, assured that his country is very patient, but expressed dissatisfaction with the use of the pronoun “my” by the Russian president.
On October 10, 2020, the British edition of The Times spoke about the “hot war” between Russia and Ukraine over borscht. However, readers of the newspaper unexpectedly proposed to recognize borscht as Polish.
As noted, the “borscht war” broke out in 2019, after a recipe for the well-known and beloved symbol of Russian cuisine, borscht, appeared in the publication of the Rossiya account on Twitter. Ukrainian users left a lot of angry comments under the post with the assurance that borscht is Ukrainian.
