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If human rights and liberties are specified as the predominant philosophical category without thorough historical, social and ethical analysis of a community; without tying those rights up with obligations and responsibilities of an individual for his society, nation and conscience – the human rights struggle may turn into a vicious and antisocial weapon. Actually, it is beneficial for the world elite, who strives to create the conditions for the dominance in the world, omniscient military control, making profit out of other nations’ resources, etc.

The antisocial power of overstretching the human right issue was well demonstrated by B. Yeltsin’s regime in Russia in the 1990s, when the failure of socialist reformation was followed by the restoration of capitalism in its worst and wildest form. The rights and liberties slogan was widely used by various rogues to ensure for themselves the freedom of robbing the nation, grabbing the public assets and unhampered export of capital and valuables to foreign countries. The government connived at this by granting them impunity for criminal machinations and even murders, so rampant during the criminal war for property redistribution.

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.

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Human Rights