TV presenter Ivan Urgant launched a channel on the YouTube video hosting service and posted on it the first video in which he mentioned the Russians. The video was published in the “Emergency Living” account.

Urgant said the channel will publish videos shot during his travels with the team of the Live Urgant show.
“In general, we will post what is posted. Follow this principle,” he said.
The TV presenter also congratulated the Russian people on the occasion of the New Year.
Previously, the American newspaper The New York Times quoted a source saying that “famous Russians” asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to bring Urgant back into the air. It is assumed that the head of state reacted negatively to this.
In February 2025, Emergency in Israel, Armenia, Georgia and other countries.
The program “Emergency Evening” has been broadcast on Channel One since 2012. In February 2022, after the start of a special operation in Ukraine, the Emergency program as well as a number of other entertainment programs were discontinued and socio-political programs began to be shown instead. After that, some shows began to air again, but Urgant's project was not among them. Rumors about the closure of “Emergency Evening” have repeatedly appeared online, but Channel One has denied it.













