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The paper analyzes the phenomenon of cross-border (transnational) education, thriving in the conditions of informatization of the modern world community. The authors examine the positive and negative consequences of the process of cross-border education in relation to the Russian educational space. Among them an urgent modern problem is considered of the relationship between national educational spaces and preservation of national security. The authors, detailing the identified problems, emphasize the insufficient use of international definitions and terminology for the analysis of cross-border education and for the analysis of competitiveness of Russia in this area of educational services. The authors believe that as the cross-border education is an obvious challenge to national educational systems, then the cross-border education research and monitoring of its development is urgently needed due to political reasons as well.