PREREQUISITES AND PROSPECTS OF INTEGRATION OF THE EU AND RUSSIA IN A SINGLE EDUCATIONAL SPACE

The article considers the main causes and the positive impact of integration of the EU and Russia in a single educational space: economic, political, cultural and social. It analyzes the conditions of modern society in local and global scale, which identifies the need the including of countries in the Bologna process, which are different in the geopolitical aspect for the EU countries and Russia. It also indicates the position of Russia regarding the degree of involvement in the Bologna process and the reforms which are necessary for its timely and proper implementation. It underlines the role of infor-matization of educational process and other spheres of the society for its full development and compe-titiveness under the domination of a market economy. It considers as well the contact point of traditional Russian educational system and the current European one: practice orientation, specialization, etc. There are also the main priorities within re-orientation of the educational process in the framework of the agreement. In particular, along with the adaptation processes in education, traditional approaches, methods, recognized both in the Soviet and in the modern period of development of the educational system should be preserved.