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Nowadays educational migration is still one of the most relevant topics for Russian and foreign scientists and an understudied topic at the same time. Despite the many published sources including quantitative and qualitative aspects of the process, the set of topics under consideration is quite limited (adaptation of foreign students, brain drain, demographical characteristics of migrants, etc.). The article using scientific principles of systematicity and general scientific methods (analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, comparison, classification, etc.) considers the dynamics of the changes in the amount of foreign students from the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States to the Russian Federation (including which countries they are from), correlation of the process with forming-up Common Education Space in Russia and CIS. The study conducted led to the conclusion that the actions by government agencies of the Russian Federation, higher education institutions and scientific organizations allowed stopping the negative process of foreign students drain, which took place in 1990s, promoting and increasing the educational migrant influx from the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States from 2000 to 2007. Among the leaders in the number of students studying at Russian universities, in early 1990-s there were Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Belorussia and in 2017 there were Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

The article deals with the place of academic literacy and academic writing in the concept of the New Literacy Studies. The issue is being widely discussed among language teachers in many educational institutions and seems highly relevant at the moment. The goal of this paper has been to review the nature and the structure of academic literacy focusing on developing academic literacy within the framework of English for Academic Purposes course. Various approaches to the definition of academic literacy are discussed as well as how EAP (English for Academic Purposes) course contributes to its formation. Writing is seen as a key component of Academic Literacy. The paper also identifies some difficulties that Russian students are likely to have due to a low level of native language academic skills and suggests ways to overcome them. The Western experiences in developing academic language skills and the ways which may contribute to Russia's integration into the international educational environment and increase competitiveness of Russian education have been thoroughly assessed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]