Russia and the Bologna Process: 20 Years Later

... the world. Vita nostra brevis est, brevi finietur… Igor Okunev: West/Non-West: Funhouse Mirror of World Politics Today, 20 years later, we have to acknowledge that these hopes were largely romantic illusions. Expanding international interaction in education within the Bologna Process failed to prevent the build-up of negative trends in relations between Europe and Russia that ultimately culminated in the acute crisis of 2014. Inter-university cooperation failed to mitigate Russia’s political conflict with its neighbors ...