The mayor of the city, Lori Lightfoot, ordered to remove the statue to avoid a new wave of protests against racism like those that took place a week ago.

According to Maria Zakharova, Russia and China were the main targets.

According to Dmitry Peskov, the rallies serve as a “breeding ground” for all sorts of “quasi-oppositionists” and “brawlers” who specially arrived there.

This was reported to RBC news agency by the wife of Valery Tsepkalo.

The US Secretary of State offered to oppose Beijing with a “new alliance of democracies.”

According to Maria Zakharova, Volodymyr Zelensky frankly admitted that he does not understand what is written in the document.

This is declared in a statement issued on July 24 by the Foreign Ministry of China.

Earlier, Washington imposed restrictions against Ramzan Kadyrov and some members of his family.