russia is in the process of migrating from its traditional tertiary education model, incompatible with existing western academic degrees, to a degree structure in line with the bologna process model. (russia co-signed the bologna declaration in 2003.) in october 2007 russia enacted a law that replaces the traditional five-year model of education with a two-tiered approach: a four-year bachelor () degree followed by a two-year master's (, "magistr") degree.