Abstract-The concept of mixed migration flows is one of the key components of the comprehensive approach to international legal regulation of migration. Whereas international cooperation on the issues of migration has its most considerable outcomes in specific fields, not in the overall view or framework for international legal regulation of migration taken as a whole, differentiating between flows, that are governed separately, represents for states more a subject of concern than that of clarity and action. The present article offers a view on the emergence, evolution, application in the practice of the leading specialized international interstate organizations and prospectives of the further development of the mixed migration flows concept, elaborated on basis of relevant normative and doctrinal sources including the most recent ones.

On April 14, 2018, the Department of International Law, Law Institute, RUDN University held the annual XVI Annual Blischenko Congress. The main work of the Blischenko Congress traditionally took place in sections focused on the main branches of international law. Co-organizers of the International Congress were international organizations, representative offices and departments. This research event was organized with grant support from: Russian Foundation for Basic Research; the grant of the President of the Russian Federation for the state support of young researches; grant of the Russian Science Foundation.

Abstract-Migration of health personnel is a phenomenon that is governed by law at the intersection of the tendencies peculiar to human rights protection as a branch of public international law and to international legal regulation of migration. However, this intersection looks like not realized by the states and is quite different from the increasing role of the human rights-based approach in the international legal regulation of migration. In a part of human rights protection, the extensive work is carried out by the World Health Organization and the United Nations treaty bodies, who detail the content of the right to health. In a part of international legal regulation of migration, the sensitivity of states towards taking additional legal commitments regarding the international movements of people remains. Upon that being states, while the human rights-based approach towards migration represents generally the application of existing treaty obligations of states in the field of human rights to migration sphere, migration of health personnel reveals that the states strive to remain in frames of ethical, not legal impositions, even if that demands the distortion of the most important international legal documents.