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Today, in the 21st century, our society rapidly exhausts natural resources without care for the preservation of the environment. The dependence on the environmental factor in such sectors of the economy as the agricultural one that thoroughly depends on natural resources, became decisive, and this cannot be ignored when assessing the development of the territory, including the territory of the Russian Federation. In this work, the author considers the problem of ensuring environmental safety in a market economy and proves that it is primarily associated with the emergence of threats and risks of environmental and economic security. The author has proposed mechanisms for the sustainable development of agricultural production and concluded that environmental and economic security should be considered as a single system of interaction between the ecosphere, sociosphere and technosphere.

In Russia, China's initiatives for the implementation of the "One Belt, One Road" (一带一路) project are met with great interest, the resumption of discussions was facilitated by a joint statement on cooperation on the construction of the Eurasian Economic Union and The Silk Road Economic Belt (丝绸之路经济带), signed following the Russian-Chinese summit in 2015.The author of the article believes that when considering the problems and prospects for the development of Eurasian cooperation in education and science, it is better to use the term "Eurasian integration." The author considers the issues of Eurasian integration in the fields of scientific and educational activities on the example of Kalmyk State University, in which, as a result of joint activities with Chinese partners, a program of academic exchanges has been developed, and the Confucius Institute has been operating since 2007.The author examines the issues of academic mobility taking into account both economic security and interethnic relations, their mutual influence on each other. The data of sociological surveys on the relationships between different ethnic groups among students are presented, and a conclusion on the need to monitor interethnic relations in the region is drawn.Considering individual threats that may negatively affect the security of integration processes, the author still concludes that there is a need to deepen cooperation in science and education, which will allow to set the pace of the process of the unified Eurasian integration.