© Larry Downing / ReutersU.S. President Barack Obama listens to leaders of Baltic States for a joint news conference at the Kadriorg Art Museum in Tallinn, Estonia.
"Quiz for amateur historians: what parts of Russia ... were lost in the 19th century?" the ministry said Thursday in a Facebook message.
Obama on Wednesday said Russia's involvement in Ukraine was a sign it was "reaching back to the days of the tsars, trying to reclaim lands lost in the 19th century [but] this is surely not the way to secure Russia's greatness in the 21st century," according to a statement on the White House website.
In fact, the only lands that Russia lost in the 19th century were the Fort Ross settlement on the coast of California, which it sold to a U.S. businessman for $30,000, and Alaska, which it sold to the U.S. government for $7.2 million - neither of which Russia lays current claim to.
Amid escalating tensions with the West, Russia has been relentless in pointing out its foes' ignorance about the country.
Late last week Russia responded to a jibe from Canada's mission to NATO by teaching it a 'geography lesson' with a map showing the recently annexed peninsula of Crimea marked as belonging to Russia.
"Helping our Canadian colleagues to catch up with contemporary geography of Europe," the Twitter post read.
Having covered history and geography - what subject could be next?
So why not Russia inform the US about their history, after all didn't I hear something about what is it, the MH17 and something said by Samantha Powers to go to Ytube for the information regarding the "full disclosure" or something like that..
Ah it's all bread an circuses as far as the US and it's affiliates are concerned, pure theatre, except the scripts are really bad at present full of pure BS with no reality in there makes for a very poor soap opera.
Guess it's time to change the channel