The article touches upon the peculiarities of development of scientific and educational processes in the countries of Eurasian Economic Union. Main tasks are promoted for developing the united scientific and educational area are promoted. It mentions that joint efforts of all countries toward the given direction will lead to multiplicity effect, and formation of united educational area will become more realistic.

The article deals with methodology and practice of development of sustainable competitive advantages of the national economies-members of the EEU and the Union as a whole. It is demonstrated that the competitiveness of the national economies should be assessed through country’s economic security criteria. The article also determines the steps and procedure of the development of sustainable competitive advantages of national economies and their implications for the development of the state competitive strategy.

The political and economic preconditions for cooperation between Russia and the Central Asian states in the project of the Silk Road Economic zone are considered. It is shown that such a framework is the international agreements of these countries and the formation of a single transport space within The Eurasian Economic Community / EAEC.

In the present article, author examines the phenomenon of cosmopolitanism in the integration processes of the modern world. The author is invited to consider the legal basis of the concept of cosmopolitanism in the system relationship with other related phenomena (globalization, integration, etc.) from the standpoint of the science of international law.

This article analyzes the principles of integration law. The principle of mutual recognition is considered as a special principle of integration associations, which is the structure-forming basis of the integration law, forms and defines directions of legal harmonization. Formation of the mutual recognition principle testifies that integration law is a quite effective regulator of integration relations between states and allows to achieve that goals which participants set them selves, creating a single space.

This article is dedicated to evaluation of theoretical understanding of the EAEU integration law, the allocation of the right of integration associations in an independent legal system, with specific legal character and nature.

In the article the main components of the multiculturalism policy and feature of its realization in the European countries are considered. Advantages of acculturation and integration of immigrants, and also value of nationality and civil identity in this process are shown.

Analyses the processes of global geopolitical and economic integration in the Eurasian space. The CSTO is regarded as a shield EEMA growing arc of instability. Determined the imperatives of interaction EEMA, SCO and BRIC and scenarios for development of the Eurasian civilization.

The article describes the events, which took place in the USSR in its last years. It discovers the reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union and the establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States. It explains why the CIS did not grow in a new Union state and did become nothing more than a mechanism for a «civilized divorce» of the former Soviet republics.

The article examines transnational organized crime, the ways of it’s classification, its types and subjects. The characteristic of directions, where crime groups have their activities. Also there is a complex of reasons of development of international crime, the solving of which could increase the level of the global security.

The paper deals with the information on current inter-university associations, the principles of their organization and functioning. The typology of university associations according to the purposes of creation was designed. The types included associations to enhance regional integration in the field of education; associations to improve the quality of education in a particular subject area; association for joint lobbying before the challenges of today’s globalized world; association for the development of educational and research activities in a particular subject area; association for the establishment and promotion of joint educational programs on the network principle; association for the development of inter-university mobility of students and teachers. In conclusion, the role of such structures in the development of inter-university relations was formulated.

The article refers to the review and analysis of Russia’s relations with Central and East Asian countries, special attention is paid to understanding the prospects of future cooperation, especially in economic and military-strategic areas. Thus, the Russian economic cooperation in the oil and energy trade with the countries of East Asia and the Far Eurasian economic integration with the countries of Central Asia form a positive economic «climate» between the regions, as well as provide stability and prospects of cooperation. However cooperation and interaction generates not only incentives for the development, but also evoke some problems and challenges, which will be mentioned in this article.