Abstract
The author considers intellectual migration in the context of customs union as a threat to national security. As it affects the external security of state it poses a threat to the defense capability, leads to the imbalance in the internal security of socio- economic, political, scientific and technical spheres. Having examined the international experience of export of the education and having assessed the current situation of the issue in the Customs Union the author concludes that without internationalization of education and its major component parts such as export of educational services as a non-primary sources of economic growth it is impossible to create educational space of CES harmoniously.