In early March 2024, a photograph of an unusual menu in Ukrainian diverged on Russian -speaking social networks. We checked whether such a menu exists in reality.
As reported in the news, in one of the Ukrainian catering establishments on the occasion death The Russian opposition policy Alexei Navalny appeared a sandwich named in his honor. This name supposedly became a reference to Navalny's words "Crimea is not a sandwich", Who loved politics during his lifetime to memorize in Ukraine. The news was illustrated by the corresponding screenshot from the page of the institution.
Information was distributed by popular pro -Russian accounts in "Live magazine","VKontakte" Telegram and other social networks.
Messages that owners of Ukrainian catering establishments give cynical names to dishes against the backdrop of reports of the death of people abroad are not the first to appear in the Russian -speaking segment of the Internet. "Verified" already disassembled the news about Cutlets in a kivsky After the murder of ex-deputy Ilya Kiva, as well as about barbecue With Karabakh smoke After the news of the resumption of hostilities in Nagorno -Karabakh. Both viral statements then turned out to be false.
The phrase about the sandwich was in use in 2014, when the opposition politician Alexei Navalny in interview On the Radio "Echo of Moskva" he said that the Crimea Peninsula, despite the contradiction by international legal norms, will never become part of Ukraine in the foreseeable future: "Is this a sandwich with sausage, or to return it back and forth?" In the future, Navalny more than once Repeatedthat in the case of coming to power, he intends to initiate a new, more free referendum in the region. After the beginning of a full -scale military invasion in 2022, the position of a politician, who was already in custody at that time, changed: he declaredthat Russia must recognize Ukraine within the borders of 1991 and withdraw troops from its territory
In the upper left corner of the viral screenshot, you can see the name of the catering point - “Ophenziv”.
Indeed, on the network the Kyiv institution with the same logo and name has website, Instagram, Twitter And Facebook, and in the menu (including in the format PDF) We see three varieties of a sandwich called Navalny.
There is no doubt that these pages belong to the real institution - it is located in the Podolsky district of Kyiv at 20 Mezhigorskaya St., has numerous reviewsmore than once It was mentioned In reviews. Institution Opened In the spring of 2023, he positions himself as "the first memilitarian art bar in the capital." It is noted that in the design of “offensiva” (translated from Ukrainian - “offensive”), elements of trophy Russian technology were used, and you can also find a dish in the menu ”Putin" - Canadian street food with potatoes and tops.
When the screenshot with the Navalny sandwich, representatives of Ofenziva in X began to disperse on the network Confirmed News and invited users to try this dish in the establishment itself.
It remains to answer the question: was such a sandwich name a reaction to the death of a politician in a Russian prison or the name Dali before, because the phrase about the sandwich has been known for a long time? We know for sure that at least in the summer of 2023 such a dish in menu It was not yet. Its copies (the latter of July 2023) have been preserved in the Internet archive. The answer to this question “Ofenziva” indirectly gave in X, saying that this dish is “New Milestone", And the idea of the name appeared a long time ago, almost a year ago, but" this time already it is forbidden It was ignored. "
Thus, unlike a number of such cases, the “Navalny” sandwich is a real dish that is served in Kyiv, and it appeared after the death of the Russian opposition policy.
Photo on the cover: screenshot from social networks.
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