The Problems of “Brain Drain” in Russia and Member States of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU)

Abstract

Among many problems that determine current international migration of population, those that are associated with the phenomenon of “brain drain” are of particular importance and topicality. The authors express a fundamental disagreement with those who try to present this phenomenon as a “mutually beneficial process for all countries”, as well as with those Russian authors who identify “brain drain” with “internal transition of people from scientific sphere to real production, business and social sphere” indicating this transition as “internal brain drain”. Particular attention is paid to two modern features, namely: “brain drain” under conditions of demographic crisis and “brain drain” between member states of the EAEU.

Keywords

• безвозвратная миграция
• возвратная интеллектуальная миграция
• «утечка умов»
• миграционная политика
• демографический кризис
• ЕАЭС