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You're right. I do agree that a lot of Russian immigrants I met are against Putin. Just to give context - I'm a Ukrainian. However, do expect that a lot of people who are immigrating or planning to immigrate now would be economical immigrants due to degrading standards of living in Russia. So, they may actually support Putin but they're looking for better life. For instance, the IT company I worked for had a client IT company from Russia and they decided not to do business with us after 2014 (annexetion of Ukrainian Crimea) because they supported Putin. The company was small-to-medium but those were IT people mostly. Also, based on the most recent polls, 70-80% of Russians support the aggression.

I think the solution should be on a government level: a government who doesn't support Russian aggression (and that's is the whole world accept ~10 countries), I'd introduce some sort of a visa/work permit/citizenship requirement for Russians to state if they support Putin or not. I'd also make a video recording of their answers similarly to the citizenship oath in many countries in case they "change their minds" later on. If they don't have a process like that or a similar process, they may introduce people who are pro-war and pro-Russian into their societies. I consider it extremely dangerous for countries that are neighbouring with Russia because Putin's propaganda used "Russians oppression" or "Russians mostly live there" as an excuse for aggression in Pridnistrovia, Goergia and Ukraine. This is especially true for Baltic states were standards of living are higher and they are potential destinations of these new waves of immigrations.

I'm not sure if a business owner can do something like that because it might be considered as a discrimination of political views or something similar. I assume no one was asked during a job interview if they supported Hitler, right ?:)

If you want to know if a Russian person supports the war, among questions like "do you support war in Ukraine/Putin?" you can ask if they supported of annexation of Ukrainian Crimea in 2014. Most Russian immigrants I met said "of course no, it's a crime and a violation of the internal laws". But some avoided answer and said something like "well it's a complex question, Crimea is mostly Russian and they were treated badly", "or Crimeans were suffering", "Crimea was never a Ukrainian territory" or something along those lines - that's a red flag. Or "it's a politics and I'm trying to stay out of politics" is also a red flag. No one will tell you directly that they support the aggression in 2014 after what happened in Feb 24th.

I do hope that "good" Russians will get a better life and "bad" Russians will stay in Russia and enjoy the products of their believes.