Based on the analysis of scholarly discourse on the results of Bologna Declaration goals and principles’ incorporation into reformation of higher education system in Russia and through their own experience of teaching in higher education institutions, the authors come to conclusion that commitment to accession into the world educational space was caused not so much by real domestic needs to improve home higher education system but by political factors as a result of slow-response impact of a liberal reformation strategy of the 1990s. Expediency to concentrate intellectual resources of university academia necessary for digitalization of educational process in compliance with the aims and needs of economy and the whole society is substantiated.