Human Rights and Solidarity: Is Balance Possible?
- Authors: Rudenko V.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Urals Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: No 7 (2025)
- Pages: 52-61
- Section: Rights and freedoms of a man and a citizen
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/1026-9452/article/view/306382
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S1026945225070063
- ID: 306382
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Abstract
The article examines the problem of correlation of human rights and solidarity in the Russian legal system. It reveals the correlation of the concepts of human rights and solidarity in certain socio-political movements, including socialism, liberalism, and Catholic reformism. The author analyzes the main ways of enshrining human rights and solidarity as constitutional and legal values in the constitutions of foreign states. The article considers constitutionalization of the principle of solidarity in the context of the constitutional reform of 2020. It concludes that the balance of human rights and solidarity within the Russian legal system is predetermined by the shift in emphasis within the discourse of human rights from an individualistic approach to a collective one. Both human rights and solidarity are part of the values that construct the Russian legal system and they do not contradict each other.
About the authors
V. V. Rudenko
Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Urals Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Author for correspondence.
Email: emikh.valentina@gmail.com
16 S. Kovalevskoy str., 620000 Yekaterinburg, Russia
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