ABSTRACT
An increase in the emigration of citizens from Russia due to the spread of the new COVID-19 infection, therefore, the article attempts to consider the problem of the emigration outflow of citizens from Russia in terms of a worsening epidemiological situation. The process of emigration outflow from Russia during the period of an unstable global epidemiological situation was studied. Method of statistical analysis of Rosstat and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development databases;a computational method, methods of comparison and description, content analysis method of scientific articles were used. The negative consequences of emigration processes occurring in Russia due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have been identified. An attempt was made to determine the scale of emigration from Russia to the most demanded geographical directions in 2020. An assessment of the real economic losses from the emigration of citizens from Russia was made based on predecessor methods. The article analyzes the actual problem of objective assessment of the scale of emigration from Russia and thereby substantiates the need to develop a fundamentally new approach to the regulation of the emigration processes in Russia in order to prevent uncontrolled escalation of their scale. The scientific novelty of the research is the definition of principles for the development of a new approach to the regulation of emigration processes aimed at improving social, financial and economic instruments through the adoption for the future of the national migration policy in the field of emigration by authorized federal government bodies of Russia. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.