Primate victims

Not news - it was announced in advance: the Russian ambassador will not attend the presentation of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. The ambassador is away - there were more important things to do and it was impossible to reschedule. Although what business can the ambassador in Norway have on December 10, other than attending the ceremony?

However, the laureate himself was not in Oslo either - Liu Xiaobo is serving an 11-year sentence for "an attempt to overthrow the system." And there were no representatives of the Nobel Committee - the correspondence of the Nobel Committee from China was returned without an answer.

Also absent were representatives from Afghanistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Kazakhstan, China, Colombia, Cuba, Morocco, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia and the Philippines.

With China, it is clear - in Beijing, on the eve of the solemn ceremony, they announced the establishment of their own Confucius Peace Prize. Moreover, the laureate, former Vice President of Taiwan Lian Zhan, the first Taiwanese politician to visit the PRC, did not know anything about this the day before.

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Over the past decade, Russia has consistently created an alternative system of international organizations based on the denial of human rights values.

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But what does Russia do on this list? That this is just a symbolic gesture of friendship with the eastern neighbor, like in Kazakhstan and Pakistan?.. Probably, but not only. An attack of long-standing dislike for “Western values”?.. Incidentally, this also includes Moscow’s initiative to nominate Julian Assange for the Nobel Prize: they say that it was the West, with its liberal values, that suffered the most from publications on WikiLeaks, and Assange himself now here it suffers from the West, freed "from a dirty and corrupting chimera ...

But there are things even more serious.

The first Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 1901 to Jean-Henri Dunant, founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross, author of the First Geneva Convention for the Protection of the Wounded. Dunant admitted that along with the "general's truth", cards with red and blue arrows, there are also suffering people, whose protection is a categorical imperative.

Decades later, these ideas were developed during the organization of the Nuremberg Tribunal, in the UN Charter, in the text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and a quarter of a century later in the Helsinki Final Act: human rights are not an internal matter of the state, since gross, massive and systematic violations of human rights and democratic norms within the country inevitably make it a threat to international peace and security. Organizations that include Russia are based on these norms - the UN, the OSCE, the Council of Europe.

But over the past decade, Russia has been imperceptibly but consistently creating an alternative system of international organizations based on fundamentally different values. The documents of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization established in 2001 record the primacy of the interests of the state over human rights, which are the essence of the country's "internal affair". Within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, these norms have received practical development - the special services of the Central Asian countries are quietly getting "their" oppositionists from Russia...

So the absence of the Russian ambassador on December 10 at the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo is not an accident, but solidarity based on common values. Or rather, on the general denial of the values ​​of human rights.