Russian views on liberalism are heavily biased these days. The reputation of the very idea is perversed by both followers and haters of this philosophy. Our liberal politicians and experts consider any other ideas wrong by default thus becoming quite the opposite to the original meaning of being "liberal". Those who hate liberalism blame the idea for being the cause of all our problems during the 90's because the politicians who failed us back then claimed to pursue the liberal values.
So today there are very few people in Russia who actually understand the original meaning of liberalism. It's not like we are unable to do that, but our recent history doesn't leave much space for that.