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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Beet This: Ukraine Wins Fight to Protect Borshch Soup

Ukraine considers borshch a national dish, though it is also widely consumed in Russia, other ex-Soviet countries and Poland Sergei SUPINSKY AFP/File

The UN's cultural agency on Friday inscribed the culture surrounding beetroot soup known as borshch in Ukraine on its list of endangered cultural heritage, a recognition sought urgently by Kviv after its invasion by neighboring Russia.

Ukraine prizes borshch, a nourishing soup with beetroot as its base, as a national dish even though it is also widely enjoyed in Russia, other ex-Soviet countries and Poland, AFP said.

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