Underfire:Russian Store underfire for sale of Chopping boards with Obama's image as a monkey

Scandal broke out after a customer
bought an chopping board with an image of US President,Barrack Obama as a  monkey,in a shop Tatarstan's main city,Kazan and took pictures that went viral.The product features a family of monkey with an image of Obama's face superimposed to that of the smallest primate.
The upscale Russian store chain on Thursday,10th December 2015 apologised for selling the chopping boards after a furious reaction by the US embassy on Thursday.
It was also reported that the store chains no longer have the product in it's shelves,saying it had not been aware of the image of the President."Sales of the shopping boards have been stopped,"
Valentina Moiseyeva,a Spokesperson for the  Bakhetle store chains,Tass agency reported.
"We are sorry that such product was on our store shelves.For us,it is unacceptable that a store be used as a place for political provocation."Moiseyeva said,adding that the supermarket have lodged a format complaint against the board's supplier.
The board is styled for a calendar for 2016,the year of the monkey according to the Chinese zodiac.
The Bakhetle chain is based in Russia's traditionally Muslim region of Tatarstan,but has stores spread across the country.
Will Stevens,the spokesperson for the US embassy in Moscow took to Twitter to show his displeasure,"Disgusting to see that such blatant racism has a place on Russia's store shelves".He tweeted.