Russian TV presenter Ivan Urgant will take part in the festival of the rock band “Bi-2”, which will be held from April 19 to 23 in the Turkish resort of Kemer. The showman posted er for the event on his Instagram* account.
From the announcement, it follows that the TV presenter will become a special guest at the event and perform there under her stage name Grisha Urgant on April 20. If the showman really becomes one of the festival’s guest artists, it will be his first live performance in recent times.
How said On the site of the festival, the group Bi-2 will give two concerts in four days of the festival, interpreting old successes and presenting the album “Hallelujah”. The program also includes performances by actors Maxim Vitorgan and Artem Tkachenko, the band Cobain Jackets and musician Mikhail Luzin, as well as house party by Alex Dubas, afterparty DJ Pasha Koreets, stand-ups and DJ sets by day.
Tickets for the festival cost 198.9 thousand rubles for two. This amount includes payment for accommodation in a five-star hotel with all-inclusive meals and participation in all activities provided by the program.
“Cancellation” of Urgant
Shortly after the start of the military operation in Ukraine, Ivan Urgant posted a post on Instagram* with the words “No to war”. Then his Evening Urgant program disappeared from the First Channel broadcast network. Ksenia Sobchak claims that the project was closed. A representative of the channel’s press service then called his remarks “lies”, claiming that entertainment programs had been removed from the broadcast network in connection with the military operation in Ukraine.
A source on one of the central TV channels explained to RTVI that “everyone needs information and discussion about current events”, and that entertainment content has stopped gathering an audience, but will return to the antenna “as the situation stabilizes”.
Subsequently, Sobchak herself refuted own message, stating that the decision to shut down Evening Urgant was made jointly by the program’s host and Channel One’s chief executive, Konstantin Ernst, due to the inadequacy of the humorous content on air.
Showman and permanent host of the program Field of Miracles, Leonid Yakubovich, in an interview with RTVI, called the decision to remove Evening Urgant from the air a mistake, recalling that “even during the Great Patriotic War good films were released , and not always so serious and patriotically directed.
In early March, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov called Urgant a “great patriot” and urged him not to be included in the “fifth column” simply because he left Russia immediately after the start of the war. special operation.
“He may have his own point of view, however he has no right to put it forward on Channel One, but he hasn’t. No need to slander people. <...> We also have such hawks who believe that everyone should get straight to the point,” the Kremlin representative shared with the Belarus-1 TV channel. Because of this interview, Peskov was attacked by the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, the secretary of the United Russia State Council Andrei Turchak and other representatives of the Russian authorities. Excellent year. How Russian culture was canceled in 2022 - from the outside and from the inside On August 3, the State Duma hosted the first meeting of the "Investigative Group on Anti-Russian Activities in the Field of Culture" (GRAD), which included representatives of the Just Russia - For Truth and of his parliamentary faction. The participants of the meeting began to draw up a list of "agents of foreign influence" among the personalities of national culture, including, in particular, Urgant and the Bi-2 group. Urgant ridiculed GRAD's request to fire him from Channel One for "anti-Russian activities" and called for the new quasi-parliamentary structure to be renamed the Enemies of Our Society (SHIT) Detection Group. In September 2022, Ernst announced the return of entertainment content to Channel One's program schedule, but the show Evening Urgant never returned to airing. It soon became known that Urgant (as well as actor Sergei Svetlakov, who opposed the military operation) will not appear in the sequel to the New Year's comedy "Christmas Trees - 9". On New Year's Eve, the Russian online cinema Kion canceled the broadcast of the festive TV show “The incident in the multi-pulti country”, which viewers were supposed to see on the night of January 1, 2023. Urgent played Carlson in this performance. “The tale has indeed been taken off the air. Will it be available, I don't know. Why the project was deleted, I have no idea. I rate these actions four with one minus,” he commented on the show’s cancellation.
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