On July 1, at the extraordinary meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage, the “Culture of Ukrainian borscht cooking” was added to the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding. Although this might seem a bit unbelievable, the feud for the rights to this treat had...

Ukraine’s Minister of Culture and Information Policy, Mr Oleksandr Tkachenko, informed about the declaration signed jointly with ministers of other European countries on the recovery and reconstruction of the cultural heritage destroyed in the war. “The Russian Federation has destroyed or damaged over 400 Ukrainian cultural sites. We have talked with our colleagues about reconstruction...