Neocolonial approaches in the fields of science and education are becoming a serious challenge today, Naryshkin noted.
“Bias, which sometimes leads to cheating in the ranking of the world’s leading universities, the obstruction of the development of national educational systems and the unscrupulous poaching of talented young people from Asian and African countries, make many non-Western societies into forced donors of intellectual capital,” he said. he said she in her video message to the participants of the plenary session of the conference “Colonialism in the East and its influence on the modern world.”
Naryshkin noted that the basis of neocolonialism was false theses about the lack of an alternative to the Western path of development. They have already caused considerable damage and suffering to all of humanity. Now it is worth summarizing the experience of national liberation movements in Asia and developing alternative principles of world order based on mutual respect, sovereignty and equality of all participants in international relations.
According to the deputy for science and higher education, Konstantin Mogilevsky, just a few years after the victory of the Soviet Union in World War II, dozens of peoples in Asia and Africa were able to embark on the path of free and sovereign development.
“In those days, it seemed that the era of colonial rule had sunk forever into oblivion. However, the current policies of the countries of the so-called collective West are making the whole world feel the effect of deja vu. The rebirth of the former colonies Approaches that are based on the division of humanity into two unequal parts are deeply felt in many spheres of international relations, not excluding educational cooperation,” Mogilevsky said in his video message.
According to him, it is no secret that the Western approach to the export of education boils down to the importation of the most intelligent and talented young people by Western states from non-Western ones. In this case, the donor State receives nothing. But Russia is taking the opposite approach, relying on training capable foreigners here and then giving them the opportunity to return to their homeland and develop their potential there.
“In this way, Russia helps its international partners and gains reliable friends who can no longer be fooled by all kinds of falsifications about our country,” Mogilevsky said.
According to the participants in the session, studies on colonialism are supported in Russia. As recognized by foreign participants at the conference in Myanmar, China and India, neocolonialism is based on the introduction of the Western educational system in non-Western societies, which is manifested in the modern world.
