Аннотация: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.
Key words: non-return migration, return intellectual migration, “brain drain”, migration policy,
demographic crisis, EAEU