My nephew gets free university, he even gets stipend. Generally speaking, commercially lucrative diplomas you need to pay for to get, these include bullshit professions like diplomats, lawyers, economists, business manaers, etc. Engineers, doctors and scientists are not commercially lucrative and you can get these for free.
Then the Russian systems is nothing like the Swedish system, because:
- Swedish undergraduate students can get any course for free, regardless of whether some guy thinks they are bullshit, and the only condition is that they pass the basic admission requirements.
- Russian undergraduate students can get some courses for free but only by means of earning a scholarship or some other pathway that has extra conditions attached to it.
(The US has probably very similar to Russia in this regard.)