Liberals and the mainstream media in America may be giving Barack Obama a glowing send-off, but others around the world are celebrating in a different kind of way.

Video shows activists approaching the U.S. embassy in Moscow, Russia on Tuesday and unfurling a gigantic banner reading, “Obama, burn in hell”.

They then lit red flares and chanted.

The protesters, who had their faces concealed, then threw down the fireworks and banner and ran.

News service Ruptly identified them as “activists” but didn’t say what cause they were promoting.