Migration potential: theoretical aspects

The article deals with theoretical aspects of the problem of forming and using the migration potential of the new countries to the Russian Federation. The issues of the methodology for determining the concept of «migration potential». It is shown that the determination of migration potential - is, first of all, is not countable methodical and methodological problem, which rests on the choice of the political paradigm: one, in light of the current socio-political, socio-economic, socio-demographic situation in Russia can and appropriate It should be considered as this potential. It is shown that at present this position at the state level is not clearly worked out. Commissioning of the State program to stimulate the return of compatriots in Russia the question left open that has a negative impact both in historical retrospect for the past quarter of a century since the collapse of the USSR, because - especially in the future. The research methodology concept of «migration potential» - this definition is not only and not so much desirable and possible volumes of attraction to immigrants from the former Soviet space. This is the choice of the geopolitical strategy of Russia's development in the post-Soviet space.