The Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) has set up a University League to ‘ensure comprehensive, systematic scientific and methodological support for the development of the international Eurasian community in the spheres of the economy, science and technology, legal fundamentals and the philosophy of human life.’

It’s not aiming to capture all universities in the member countries (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan; Serbia and Afghanistan have observer status) but to focus on the best national universities. 25 founding members set the League up in April 2014.

See http://itar-tass.com/ural-news/1137780 [ru] and http://en.itar-tass.com/world/715038 [en] for further details.

For more on the CSTO, see http://www.eurasianet.org/taxonomy/term/1738, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_Security_Treaty_Organization, and its own website, http://www.odkb-csto.org/.