Code of Moral Principles and Rules of Economic Activity

Abstract

The World Russian People’s Council, an influential forum of different Russian and foreign nongovernmental organisations united by Orthodoxy, initiated to work out the Code. In December 2002 the Council, devoted to the topic ‘Faith and labour. Spiritual and cultural traditions and economic future of Russia’ decided to work out the document. The final version of the draft was adopted on 4 February 2004 by the 8th World Russian People’s Council. The representatives of all traditional religions of Russia, including Islamic, Buddhists and Jewish leaders, participated in the work of the Council and support the Code