International Educational Projects of the Russian Federation for the Implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goal 4

The article presents the results of an empirical study on the role of the Russian Federation’s international educational projects in achieving UN Sustainable Development Goal 4, using countries in Asia and Africa as examples. The authors analyze the impact of educational exports on human capital formation and explore the interrelationship between education, economic growth, and social development, based on human capital theory and data from the Human Development Index (HDI). Based on the statistics of the Russian Ministry of Education, a trend towards a steady increase in the number of students from Asia and Africa in Russian universities has been identified. A regression analysis was conducted, which made it possible to obtain a forecast estimate of the number of international students in 2025–2026. The role of branches of leading Russian universities in increasing the competitiveness of Russian education, providing access to high-quality educational standards in Russia, strengthening the role of the Russian language, etc. is noted. The role of Russian educational projects in achieving the UN SDG 4 is analyzed on the example of a number of Asian and African countries. Special attention is paid to the impact of geopolitical competition between hegemonic states and information threats on the perception of Russian education. The results of the study indicate the continuing impact of external destabilizing factors, which actualizes the task of developing comprehensive measures to neutralize the destructive information influence, improve the international competitiveness of the national educational system and strengthen Russia’s position in the market of international education.

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