Because capitalist Russia is pretty shit. The only thing it's good for is opposing the US hegemony, but even then it's still pretty cringe with it's capitalist oligarchy.
Compare modern day Russia with shit like the Soviets sending the first women to space. Seems like they were pretty progressive for the time compared to now?
How the mighty have fallen. You hate to see it.
Perhaps emigrants in the 90s skewed more “progressive,” leaving a more religious/reactionary population in Russia. Not sure where to find data on this though.
That's just a constant function of brain drain, though. One of the benefits for the imperialist countries that receive said emigrants is that it's much harder for a country whose educated professionals have left it to progress past the conditions that cause the exodus, it's a self perpetuating problem.