OREANDA-NEWS Blogger and designer Artemy Lebedev spoke about TV presenter Ivan Urgant. In a news review available on VKontakte, Lebedev called him a free man.

According to the blogger, nobody has accused Urgant of anything in Russia and the TV presenter is in no way deprived of his rights. "He's a free man, travels the world, gives concerts and holds all kinds of corporate weddings, earns a pretty penny," Lebedev added.

Earlier it was reported that Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented on the message about requests to return Urgant to the air. The press secretary of the head of state said that he did not know anything about this.

Before that, the American newspaper The New York Times announced requests from "prominent Russians" to Russian President Vladimir Putin to return Urgant to the air. The publication claimed that the Russian leader reacted negatively to this.