Chief Researcher of the Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Yekaterinburg), Doctor of Law, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
V.N. Rudenko is a recognized authority in the field of public policy and law on the problems of civil participation in the exercise of public power. From a junior researcher to the director of the RAS Institute, the position he was holding since 2001 to 2018, Rudenko has always played a crucial part in the Institute’s life. Currently he is a Chief Researcher of the Institute’s Department of Law. Rudenko is the author of 360 scientific papers, including 19 monographs, has published in the USA, France, Japan, Mexico, Poland and has repeatedly presented reports at international scientific congresses and in leading research centres in Bulgaria (1991), Italy (1998), Poland (2005, 2008), USA (1996, 2000, 2005), Finland (2003), Japan (1999), People’s Republic of China (2008, 2018), Poland (2013-2019). He was a member of the organizing committees of 12 international conferences, including 4 conferences organized by the Eurasian Network for Political Research, which have been created with his active involvement in order to unite political scientists and lawyers from the CIS countries, Europe, Japan and the United States.
Being one of the leading researchers of civic participation in the exercise of public power, V.N. Rudenko has developed and co-developed 20 bills. Based on his novel comparative legal methods, several models of modern constitutional and legal institutions of direct democracy were investigated: elections, referendum, civil law-making initiative, "popular veto", recall of deputies and elected officials, etc.; many of them were developed in the constitutional law of various countries.
In 2008-2011, V.N. Rudenko was carrying out the research project of comparative legal analysis of possible forms of citizen participation in the administration of justice in the modern world. This research has appeared to be an outstanding one, due to 140 countries of the world and 30 dependent territories have been covered in it for the first time in the scientific theory and practice.
Among the leading scientific achievements of Rudenko V.N. should be mentioned:
- the development of the direct democracy in modern law concept;
- the investigation of the constitutional and legal institutions of direct democracy in mobilization and conciliatory political systems;
- the development of the political and legal institutions of direct democracy research methodology;
- a comprehensive analysis of all possible forms of citizen participation in the administration of justice in the modern world.
V. N. Rudenko is also a member of the editorial board of the journal “Voprosy filosofii”, included in the SS WoS, editor-in-chief of the Scientific Yearbook of the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the editorial boards of three other scientific journals. He is also the head of scientific projects under the programs of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Department of Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation.

Under the supervision of V.N. Rudenko 5 candidate and 1 doctoral dissertations were defended.
Rudenko V.N. is
- the chairman of the Academic Council of the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
- a member of the Dissertation Council at the Ural State Law University, Chairman of the Joint Council for the Humanities of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
- a member of the Presidium of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
- a member of the Anti-Corruption Council under the President of the Russian Federation.
In 2019 V.N. Rudenko was elected an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree.