The purpose of the article is to analyze the changes taking place in the legal regulation of citizenship relations and on their basis to identify trends in the migration policy of the Russian state. The author comes to the conclusion about the preservation of the legislative approach to the understanding of citizenship as a special kind of legal relations, as well as the refusal of the state to consolidate at the legislative level the understanding of citizenship as a subjective right. In the article, based on changes in the legislation on citizenship, three trends of migration policy are analyzed: 1) liberalization of migration legislation in relation to persons close to us in the common historical and cultural past, who can organically fit into the system of social ties of Russian society; 2) ensuring national security and law and order; 3) the tendency of differentiation of approaches to dual and multiple citizenship; maintaining the orientation of migration policy towards Russian citizens who also have citizenship of a foreign state.