On April 16, Ivan Urgant performed in Haifa with the first concert of his new show “Living Urgant”. On this day, the TV presenter turned 47 years old, and 13 years ago, the first issue of the Evening Urgant program, which was shown by Channel One before the beginning of a full -scale war, was aired.
The concert show is made in the same style as the "Evening Urgant". On the stage there was the same table as in the program on Channel One, and on it the microphone, which stood on the table in the Evening Urgant for the past few years.
Together with Urgant, Alexander Gudkov, who worked on the “evening Urgant”, also entered the stage in Haifa. Urgant and Gudkov was remembered by another of his colleague on the show on Channel One - Dmitry Khrustalev, who remained in Russia and became one of the main people of the first channel. They laid in the place of the missing co -host a bouquet of flowers.
During the show, Urgant congratulated Alla Pugacheva on his last birthday (the singer celebrated him on April 15) and performed her famous song “A million Scarlet Roses”.
In the final of the program, Urgant was put on stage a festive cake with the logo of its new project and candles. Before blowing the candles, the TV presenter made a desire - "love, kindness and peace."
On April 19, the concerts of the Living Urgant will be held in Tel Aviv, April 21 in Yerevan, April 23-24 in Tbilisi, April 26 in Tashkent.
In February 2022, Urgant made an anti -war utterance, and his program was removed from Channel One. Officially, the closure of the "Evening Urgant" was not announced, on Channel One explained the absence of new issues with a temporary refusal of entertainment content. At the same time, Channel One shows other entertainment programs.
On March 18, 2025, RIA Novosti announced that Urgant had registered individual entrepreneurs in France, indicating the production and production of the show with its activities, and as an address, a house in the seventh district of Paris. After that, the State Duma deputy from “Fair Russia - For Truth” Nikolai Novichkov said that he sent an appeal to the Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation Konstantin Chuychenko with a request to consider the grounds for recognizing the TV presenter Urgant “Ino -Agens” on the basis of the released information about the opening of television presenters in Paris.
The TV presenter himself, commenting on reports of IP in Paris, said that he was not going to leave Russia and open a business abroad. On April 10, Urgant in Moscow acted as a leading charitable auction of the Cosmosco Foundation.
At the end of March, the “layout” wrote that the administration of the President of the Russian Federation discuss the possibility of “normalizing” life after the conclusion of a truce with Ukraine. In particular, the publication with reference to the sources of the Kremlin and the National Media Group (among other things, the Channel One belongs) reported that for several months, negotiations have been negotiating with Urgant for several months to return to Russian television with a new show. At the same time, one of the sources assured that after a tour with a “live Urgant”, the TV presenter would come to Moscow, and the issue of his return to the television screens “has already been resolved”. However, other interlocutors of “layout” said that we are talking about projects with Urgant, which will only be possible “after a truce”. Urgant himself did not comment on the publication of “layouts”.