For many years, there has been a discussion about the unconditional basic income, and the governments of many countries have already experimented with this ideas. The epidemic of coronavirus and the Lokdown of the World Economy accelerated this process, and today the governments of dozens of countries distribute money to the population in quarantine. Will this become regular practice after the end of the pandemic? Can Russia introduce unconditional basic income? They discuss: Sergey Aleksashenko, economist and Oleg Vyugin, economist, professor of the Higher School of Economics.