Eurasian Cooperation in the Relationship Between Economic Security and Inter-Ethnic Relations

Abstract

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.