TV presenter Ivan Urgant has denied involvement in the Telegram channel “Evening Urgant”, which featured a broadcast in March 2022 featuring a burning Russian armored personnel carrier. Presenter on this topic Wrote on your verified channel.
He emphasized that the program “Evening Urgant” never had a channel on Telegram, that the program team began to fight the fake resource “long before the known events”, but the complaints did not yield any results. Urgant also posted a screenshot of a message asking him to delete the channel; According to the server, this message was sent to the messaging support service after the post featuring the armored personnel carrier.
Urgant added that Telegram administration deleted the post but “left the channel alive and healthy.”
“If tomorrow, for example, they report that I drink the blood of babies at night, let me deny this in advance,” the TV presenter wrote (spelling and punctuation preserved. – socialbites.ca).
He also stated that he published his first post on Messenger on May 5, 2022. Urgant stated that he “did not publish anything” in this post. Before that, only his photo, published on February 28, was published on Urgant’s Telegram channel. The channel itself was created on February 26.
“Let’s reassure, – Well, Zakhar! Edward! Mikhail Ivanovich! Ksenia! Jean-Luc! Santa Barbara! Anna! Elsa! Zorka! Kind people! Holy saints! I NEVER WRITTEN OR PUBLISHED THIS!!!!! So let’s accept this as a given. Let’s stop delaying, blaming indiscriminately, poisoning, oppressing and most importantly, lying!” – Finished Urgant (spelling, punctuation and design of the author are preserved. – “socialbites.ca”).
The fake channel is available on Messenger and is currently posting photos of Urgant. The channel was labeled “fake” and received the following warning: “Many users have reported that this account is impersonating a well-known person or organization.”
“As you understand, the issue is not in the video”
November 19, author Zakhar Prilepin report journalist Ksenia Sobchak accused Urgant of publishing a post in support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It was about a post on a fake Telegram channel.
“Ivan Urgant published on his resource the most disgusting thing, no matter how much he grimaced there [пост]”said Prilepin.
Sobchak responded by saying that the channel did not belong to Urgant, to which the author replied: “If this is not his resource, he can immediately say ‘this is not my resource’.” “For some reason it seemed to be his source all this time, but then it suddenly turned out he wasn’t.”
On November 22, after Urgant’s statement about the fake channel, Prilepin apologized, but highlightedHe said that his “not very persistent allegations” against the TV presenter had nothing to do with the broadcast on the channel.
“Ivan, if this is true, I’m sorry. But as you understand, it’s not about the video <…> You have taken and constantly take an anti-Crimea, anti-Donbass position; and you are absolutely against SVO. And it’s not a sin, it’s not a shame. It’s embarrassing to pretend it’s not noticed. But this seems very interesting to you, Ivan,” Prilepin wrote.
He accused Urgant of having included in the program of people who categorically do not accept the “return of Crimea, the “Russian Spring” and the “Donbass resistance” since 2014. According to the author, Urgant’s “main experts and dear guests” “left Russia in chorus, in crowds, in flocks.”
It is being checked urgently
State Duma in October 2023 accepted Protocol order to control some Russians who left to discredit the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and finance the Ukrainian army.
Urgant was included in the verification list, the list also included comedian Maxim Galkin (recognized as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation), blogger Ruslan Usachev, former host of the program “Fashionable Sentence” Alexander Vasiliev, comedian Alexander Revva. , son of showman Alexander Gudkov, as well as returning Russian businessman Mikhail Fridman and former head of the government of the Samara region Yuri Kudryashov.
The TV presenter did not comment on reports regarding the audit. it in may deniedSupporting the Armed Forces of Ukraine and calling rumors about it “lies”.
State Duma deputy Nikolai Novichkov in January 2023 offered Get to know Urgant as a foreign agent. Commenting on this initiative, the TV presenter said: stated:
“The last year has taught us a lot, it is impossible to imagine what will come to the mind of some MPs in particular. “For me, this is a mystery that scientists will have to study for a long time because it is impossible to understand.”
In the summer of 2022, several State Duma deputies organized a working group to investigate anti-Russian activities in the field of culture (GRAD) and included Urgant in the list of “agents of foreign influence”. In response, the presenter said that parliamentarians should legally allow the next of kin of blacklisted persons to be held accountable, “withdraw from free sale all Paul McCartney’s albums, except for the album “Back in USSR”, and also that the name of the organization should be changed from GRAD to GOVNO (“Group for Detection of Enemies of our Fatherland”) ) changing to abbreviation.
In February 2022, Ivan Urgant spoke out against the military operation in Ukraine and went abroad; The broadcast of the Evening Urgant program was stopped. Subsequently, the TV presenter returned to his homeland, but practically does not appear in public. The press service of Channel One several times denied information about the closure of Evening Urgant, stating that the channel temporarily refused to show entertainment programs and operated in information mode.