RUDENKO Viktor Nikolaevich，Deputy Chairman of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Principal Researcher of the Department of Law, Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2011, he was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 2019.Since 2014, he has been the Chairman of the joint academic Council for the Humanities of the Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is the chief editor of the scientific journal Antinomies, a member of the editorial Board of the scientific journal “Questions of Philosophy”(Russia), “Studia Wyborcze” (Poland). His research interests include legal and political aspects of democratic development in contemporary world. He is the author of nearly 400 works, including 18 monographs, and the author of 20 bills of Sverdlovsk region.