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The article presents the results of a study to assess the priorities of the state policy in the legal and pedagogical aspects in order to modernize the management of higher foreign language education. The focus is on the productivity of the foreign language education process, which is the result of the joint activities of managers and teachers of higher education. The review of the legal and pedagogical aspect of higher linguistic education for the purpose of studying the peculiarities of governmental management in organizing and implementing the foreign-language education regional policy in the Baltic border area has been chosen based on the priority directions of the federal language education policy, which involves the introduction of The Concept of Sustainable Development by the government, educational departments and organizations, while realizing the place and role of foreign-language education on the scale of the state and its regions. Research methodology: principles of the Concept of Sustainable Development. The object of the study is the sphere of higher foreign language education management on the territories of the Russian Federation adjacent to the Baltic states – Estonia and Latvia – (on the example of the Pskov region). Hypothesis: the formation of connections between the place of residence and education and the significance of sustainable development values in the process of learning a non-native language (English) in the regional context of an unstable border territory. The implementation of the state policy in the field of higher foreign language education involves the use of specific management tools, so the legal and pedagogical perspective of the development and the implementation of the management tools for the process of foreign language education is considered to be of utmost significance.