In recent years, the migration legislation of the Russian Federation has been subject to a substantial number of amendments, and the year 2024 has proved no exception. These legislative changes are to a considerable degree conditioned by objective political and economic factors, which are linked to the rapidly changing political and economic situation of the Russian state and its organs of public authority. The article offers a survey and analysis of the principal amendments to the legislation governing migration policy and the legal regulation of the status of foreign nationals and stateless persons in the Russian Federation. The subject of this interdisciplinary research is the body of Russian legal norms that regulate the legal status of foreign nationals and stateless persons in Russia — their rights and obligations, their liability for migration-related offences, and the rules governing their entry into, stay in, and presence in the territory of the Russian Federation. Provisions of federal legislation, both newly enacted and already in force, are examined in their historical context. The article analyzes the most significant changes in the migration legislation of the Russian Federation of 2024. Particular attention is devoted to a number of specifi c issues relating to the refinement of the legal status of highly qualified specialists among foreign nationals and stateless persons. In contemporary legal doctrine, considerable attention is paid to organizations that, while not organs of public authority in the strict institutional sense, are nonetheless endowed with certain state or other public powers. With specific reference to the field of migration, the authors therefore consider the new legal regulation of federal state unitary enterprises for which the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation acts as founder. They likewise examine the status of state budgetary institutions of the city of Moscow. In addition, attention is paid to coercive measures and sanctions — both administrative and criminal — introduced by recent federal statutes. The article describes the legal structure of the newly introduced criminal and administrative off ence-types in the field of migration.