Migration policy: legislative embodiment and legal implementation in Russia

The relevance of the article is due to the importance of migration policy for the state. The article discusses the issues of liberalization of migration legislation in Russia. The problem of the implementation of legal norms by the law-enforcer is reviewed, the conclusion is drawn that law enforcement agencies and courts are guided by the established practice of a rigid approach to assessing the activituies of subjects of migration relations. Purpose: to focus on the need to liberalize not only migration legislation, but also law enforcement practice, taking into account the changing migration policy in the activities of power bodies. Methods: empirical methods of comparison, description, interpretation; theoretical methods of formal and dialectical logic are used. Specific scientific methods are used: historical, legal-dogmatic, method of interpreting legal norms. Results: the study makes it possible to formulate a number of conclusions regarding the identified direction of migration policy, its reflection in legislation. The preservation of the traditional approach in the activities of law enforcement agencies concerning participants in migration relations is noted. It retains its repressive orientation and is not fully consistent with the proclaimed political course towards the liberalization of migration relations.