Since when does Russia have universal welfare? I thought it was a burning pile of feces when it comes to any social services.

No

Things like UBI is part of the propaganda you're complaining about.

It's a poison pill promoted by wealthy people like Andrew Yang to distract from the need for increases in minimum wage.

If minimum wage increases corporations have to pay. With UBI, then the government pays and it doesn't cost the corporation.

But they already know it's not politically viable and will never happen anyway. Even if it does, they still don't going to pay out. Classic Xanatos Gambit.

But the main point of UBI is to get people that would normally push for an increase in minimum wage to push for UBI instead. Then the right wing can say "these clowns just want free money from the government." Centrist don't go along with it and it never happens. And neither does an increase in minimum wage which is much harder to argue against, but nobody is arguing for because of the distraction that is UBI.

UBI is all about making people take up a losing cause instead of raising minimum wage which would be a winning cause.

You swallowed the poison pill of UBI, so no minimum wage increase is happening. Their propaganda worked.