Управление (Jan 2025)
Russia’s scientific and educational policy in the Eurasian Economic Union countries: major tools and counteracting actors
Abstract
In this research, the authors consider the main scientific and educational tools of the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as RF, Russia) aimed at maintaining leadership in the regional system of the Eurasian Economic Union (hereinafter referred to as EAEU) as well as the main non-regional actors, their acts of humanitarian influence and intra-system factors of the development of relations between Russia and the countries of the Union in the scientific and educational sphere of interaction. The object of the proposed article is the integration space of the EAEU. The subject is the foreign policy aspects of the RF’s state policy in the scientific and educational sphere in the context of its sovereignty and transformation of approaches to the interaction with the EAEU countries since 2022. The methodological basis of the article consists of systematic and historical methods, an institutional approach, content analysis. The authors characterise the scientific and educational policy of Russia in the EAEU countries as a set of measures of the humanitarian influence, and highlight the main institutionalised instruments of soft power. The key non-regional actors are identified: the United States of America, China, Turkey and Poland, whose humanitarian projects are aimed at countering the initiatives of the RF in the region. The foundations of their policies and the main tools are characterised. The authors analyse the regulatory framework for the functioning of the international cooperation in the humanitarian field in the EAEU. By the historical and political consideration, positive and negative internal factors of the development of this sphere of interaction have been identified. The conclusion has been made about the focus of Russia’s scientific and educational policy in the region on overtaking the differentiation of international and constitutional and legal bases of the cooperation to protect the national interests in the context of the international confrontation.
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