Education as a Soft Power Instrument of Russia’s Foreign Policy

... dimension of the Bologna process aims to compete for the best students and professors on the international markets of education by making the European tertiary education more appealing and moving in education from “Europeanization” to “internationalization” (before 1990s there was no difference) [15] . Russia’s Soft Power Potential in Internationalizing Higher Education Russia’s education potential has traditionally been seen as an essential development resource for the country: “Russia’s main hope is the high level of education of the population and, mainly, of our youth. And that is a fact,...