The contemporary, changing, and globalizing world necessitates the conceptualization and implementation of the ideas of global education on all hierarchical levels, ranging from kindergartens to universities to the programs of educating the adult. As in many countries, the current issues of global education assume great importance in Russia, a country undertaking large strides in establishing pedagogical cooperation with other countries within the European and global educational space. This article draws on a range of questions pertaining to the nature and principles of global education; it offers an account of how global education issues are elaborated in the Birsk State Sociopedagogical Academy, Bashkortostan, Central Russia, where the author works as teacher educator; and it examines aspects of global competency that secondary school graduates need to possess to effectively interact in a contemporary interdependent world.