Russian and European Higher Education Systems
The basic principles and objectives of the higher education, declared in the law of the Russian Federation on Education, as well as in Magna Charta Universitatum, Lisbon convention, and Bologna and Sorbonne declarations, are considered along with the measures undertaken in the European Union reorganizing the area of higher education and the causes of the undertakings. The higher education system of Russia is analyzed and shown to meet all the main requirements formulated in the European documents and completely comply with the concept of continuing education prompted by the modern rapidly developing high-technology world; hence, there is no need in a reorganization following a bachelor-master-philosophy doctor scheme instead of a specialist-philosophy doctor one, though it needs establishing tighter relations between teaching and research in the universities.