The Commission is a coordinating body of the Russian Government, established to ensure coordinated action of the federal executive bodies in pursuing the country's state policy with regard to Russians residing abroad. 

The Commission has the following responsibilities:

• to coordinate the work of federal and regional executive bodies in pursuing the country's state policy with regard to Russians residing abroad;

• to control the work of federal executive bodies on implementing key government policies with regard to Russians residing abroad, such as distribution of government funds allocated for this purpose;

• to handle other issues related to the implementation of state policy in this sphere.

Members:

Sergei Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs (Chairman of the Commission);

Grigory Karasin, State Secretary, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (Deputy Chairman of the Commission);

Konstantin Kosachyov, Head of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Cultural Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo) (Deputy Chairman of the Commission);

Sergei Mareyev, General Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Deputy Chairman of the Commission);

Otari Arshba, Chairman of the State Duma Committee for Civil, Criminal, Arbitral and Procedural Law (external advisor);

Tatyana Blinova - Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Security;

Andrei Busygin, Deputy Minister of Culture;

Natalya Vorontsova, Deputy Head of the Customs Cooperation Directorate at the Federal Customs Service;

Radik Gimatdinov - Aide to the President of the Republic of Tatarstan;

Alexander Zhuravsky, Director of the Interethnic Relations Department at the Ministry of Regional Development;

Konstantin Kosachyov, Head of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Cultural Cooperation;

Vladimir Lukin, Russian Human Rights Commissioner (external advisor);

Anatoly Makarov - Director of the Department for Interaction with Compatriots Abroad, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Executive Secretary of the Commission);

Mikhail Margelov, Chairman of the Federation Council International Affairs Committee (external advisor);

Alexander Matveyev - Assistant at the Presidential Directorate for Foreign Policy (external advisor);

Viktor Moskvin - Director of the Alexander Solzhenitsyn House of Russians Abroad (external advisor);

Irina Perevoznikova, Deputy Director of the Department for Social and Civil Legislation at the Ministry of Justice;

Natalya Pogrebnyak, Chief Consultant at the International Cooperation Department of the Government of the Russian Federation;

Alexander Prokhorenko, Chairman of the St Petersburg Committee for External Relations and Tourism (external advisor);

Alexei Pushkov – Chairman of the State Duma Committee for International Affairs (external advisor);

Viktor Sadovnichy, Rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University (external advisor);

Oleg Salagai - Deputy Director of the Department for International Cooperation and Public Relations, Ministry of Healthcare;

Leonid Slutsky – Chairman of the State Duma Committee for the CIS and Russian Diaspora;

N. Styopkin – deputy department head at the Federal Security Service;

Igor Fedyukin - Deputy Minister of Education and Science;

Sergei Cheryomin, Moscow Government Minister and Head of the Department for Foreign Economic Activity and International Relations;

Vitaly Yakovlev, Head of the Directorate for Compatriots Living Abroad of the Federal Migration Service;

Yelena Yakovleva, Director of the Department of Budget Policy in State Management, the Judicial System and State and Municipal Services at the Ministry of Finance.