Yes and no. You're more likely to find counter-culture beliefs among the tech crowd in Russia just like rest of world. How many of us watch TV for our news? I have 20+ Russian / Belarussian engineers working at my company and granted its a small sample size but views tend to range from "I need to get the hell out asap" to "I really should get out... but I have X keeping me here... this is fine." (dog w/ flames)