Countries:
Russia
Topics:
Human Rights, Religion, International Relations, Politics

A Step At A Time quotes an RFE/RL piece on the adoption by the Russian Orthodox Church of its Basic Principles on Human Dignity, Freedom, and Rights. One of its authors, Eurasianist Aleksandr Dugin, argues that the 1948 UN Human Rights declaration should be reexamined. Western HR-values should be replaced by Orthodox principles, according to Dugin.

Posted by Vilhelm Konnander

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