Internationalization of Russian Higher Education in the Eighteenth Century as a Factor in the Formation of Academic Freedoms and University Self-Governance

The article examines the historical and legal evolution of student rights and academic freedoms in Russia from the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy to eighteenth-century university models. It argues that statutory instruments and institutional privileges recognized students’ legal capacity, fostered university self-governance, and established standards of academic autonomy supported by state authority. The analysis of international cooperation with European universities elucidates mechanisms of legal and institutional borrowing compatible with the consolidation of the national tradition. The study concludes with the continuity of these institutions within the contemporary constitutional right to higher education and the capacity of Russian higher education to contribute to the nation’s sustainable development.