Russia and the Bologna Process: 20 Years Later

... from Soviet singer-songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky, “in those times nearly shrouded in the mists of history,” the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation headed by Vladimir Filippov (1999–2004) was perhaps the most enthusiastic proponent of Russia joining the Bologna Process and the Ministry did much to speed up the process. In the early 2000s, the Russian leadership took the country’s integration into the system of European higher education as an important political task, the solution of which would yet ...