So the individual rights and freedoms emancipated from morality give full scope to abuse and arbitrary behavior, no matter whether this happens in the West or in the East. Yeltsin’s policy in Russia and abroad was flagrantly immoral; there are scores of examples of this. But it especially concerns the foundations of people’s existence and vital functions. ‘While three thirds of Russia’s revenue is created owing to natural resources, 15 percent of the population have misappropriated the assets that are God-given, not man-made, and by definition cannot be owned by them. The unprecedented crime was committed in Russia, abetted by Yeltsin’s government ’, said Academician Dmitry Lvov at the 2006 Christmas Educational Readings.

Morality in international relations, which is lacking in today’s world politics, is of paramount importance. Fates of nations, wars and peace depend on it. Only moral politics can bring peace and public good. General Ludwig Beck, one of Hitler's top officials in fascist Germany, who later headed the conspiracy against Hitler, warned in 1938 that Hitler’s adventurous plans for subjugating ‘inferior’ nations would lead to national disaster. ‘It would be a sin and crime against history to turn the rich variety of neighboring nations into the desert-like uniformity of a world empire. The violation of moral laws by any country should be subject to retribution’, he wrote. These words may well be addressed to the present-day US leaders. They ignore morality in international affairs, because it does not fit in their plan of creating a uniform world empire on the basis of ‘American values’ - above all the proclaimed values of individual freedoms and rights. Yet the supremacy of this value is impugnable, if only because the stock principle ‘It is forbidden to forbid’ may become profoundly immoral. Let us think, for example, of sanctities’ caricature wars, capable of raising the gall of entire religious communities.

The European Union and Washington keep Russia at bay on the assumption that ‘European civilization values are alien’ to it - meaning primarily the value of individual freedoms and rights. Under the pressure of Western propaganda which revolves around human rights, the Russian politics and mass media took the timid and nearly servile position of deep defense. But this inferiority complex is falsehood; it is imposed by the politicians unfriendly to Russia as a psychological provocation. Russia can launch a counter-offensive and accuse NATO of violation of moral and ethic norms, reveal the double standards of its policies concerning human rights and bring to light its real hidden motives.

Recently the Human Rights Council has been instituted by the UNO. It would be fine if this respectable international organization also institute the Council for Moral Observation Control. The attrition of morals has become a genuinely global problem, both for individuals and governments; disdain for moral causes warp of social development and poses a threat to world security and peace. This problem should be tackled head on.