Back when I was in university doing my undergrad (only 4 years ago), in the two years that I spent in that particular university - out of all the people that I talked to, only one of them was actively looking to start a company or do something. It was a Russian foreign exchange student in his 1st year. He had already started and succeeded in business back in Mother Russia and was using his hard earned cash to now get an undergrad as an international student.

The Russians are intelligent, smart, and resourceful - they have all the qualities needed for entrepreneurship and it will take very little effort on the part of the Russian government to create an environment to attract them.