Relevance. The genesis and conjuncture of the development of the modern migration process on a global scale and at the level of individual states are accompanied by the dynamization and intensification of most political risks and threats in the actualized conditions of increasing international and interstate interdependence and interdependence. In turn, this requires the development and coordination of optimal mechanisms and tools for making political decisions on migration issues, taking into account national specifics. For Russian political realities, the most preferable option is to operate with the terminology of socio-political stability and security. Accordingly, it is necessary to transform the system of approaches to understanding the modern migration agenda adopted at the level of the Russian political leadership.Purpose. The main purpose of writing the article is to offer the author's methodological recommendations for making political decisions on migration problems.Objectives: determination of the features of the migration process in Russia at the present stage, formulation of the main problems and prospects for the development of the modern Russian migration process.Methodology. The author mainly used the following group of methods in the process of writing the article: secondary analysis of information data, content analysis, event analysis, sociological analysis, formal legal analysis, statistics.Results. Taking into account, firstly, the peculiarities of the migration process in Russia at the present stage, and secondly, the main problems and prospects for the development of the modern Russian migration process at the present stage, some author's methodological recommendations for political decision-making are proposed within the following key blocks: ideological and value design, normative activity, the work of specialized state authorities, the implementation of monitoring of political decision-making.Conclusion. At the present stage of Russia's political and socio-economic development, there is a rather serious and extensive block of unresolved issues and problems in the field of migration, requiring the appropriate joint active participation of various social groups and forces. It is assumed that within the framework of Russian national realities, when making political decisions, a practice-oriented approach based on full consideration of cultural characteristics and maximum provision of socio-political stability is most appropriate.