The Public Chamber of Tomsk Oblast is proposing for broad discussion a project under the name of «Code of the Tomich» [A “Tomich” is an inhabitant of Tomsk in Russian–Trans.] You can acquaint yourself with the text of the code on the Oblast administration website.

“We consider, – writ the authors (for some reason with a whole bunch of mistakes), – that the given project deserves the attention of all inhabitants of the oblast center and the population of Tomsk Oblast, because in it are reflected… the moral norms of behavior of every person, irrespective of his political, religious and other world-view preferences. In it are gathered norms of behavior that can and must unite society in the name of the development and prosperity of our little motherland [i.e. Tomsk and environs–Trans.].”

The objective, as we can see, is noble: the unification of society and the prosperity of the little motherland.

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True, two things, at minimum, immediately come to mind: the moral code of the builder of communism (younger readers will probably not recall what this is – look here)  and Jerzy Lec’s famous quote about how you can always find Eskimos who will write rules of behavior in the tropical heat for the inhabitants of the Belgian Congo.