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The Russian Embassy in the US recommends that the Russians to refrain from trips to the city of Charlottesville (Virginia).
“In connection with declared by the authorities of the regime of emergency in Charlottesville, Virginia, we recommend Russian citizens to refrain from trips to this city before full normalization of the situation and the lifting of state of emergency”, — informs the Embassy in Facebook.
Since yesterday in the town are clashes with far-right neo-Nazis. According to media reports, here brought together several thousand members of neo-Nazi groups and the Ku Klux Klan. Governor of Virginia Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency.
Yesterday in Charlottesville on August 12 had to pass the rally far-right, but was ahead of them neo-Nazis, who held a spontaneous torchlight procession. They require local authorities to refuse the demolition of the monument to General Robert Edward Lee — party civil war of 1861-1865 between the North and the South of the United States, who fought for the Confederacy (11 slave States of the South). Last year it was decided to rename the Park, which bears the name of commander, in Emancipation garden, and the monument to put up for auction.
During the outbreak of disturbances in the city, and after marching against the far right rally car at high speed drove into a crowd, killed one person, injured 30 people.
Charlottesville is a small town in Central Virginia, on the banks Rivanna, a tributary of the James river. It is 185 miles from Washington. Its population is more than 40 thousand people.