For several years, a photograph of a brightly dressed man, represented as the ex-head of the Baltic state, has been walking on the network. We checked whether it is TOOMOMA Hendrick Ilves.
A picture of a man in a green T-shirt with a badge-pin in colors in the colors of a classic LGBT-Flag, as well as with bright decorative elements, many Internet users spread, claiming that this is a portrait of the ex-president of Estonia, Tomas Hendrick Ilves. Some of them clarify that the picture was taken during a gay parade. Similar publications (including published More recently) can be found in Facebook, Twitter and on "Zen". In 2018, the photo even Showed On the air of Russian Federal Television. Tigran Keosayan in his author’s program “International Pylorama” on NTV, commenting on Ilves anti -Russian statements, demonstrated this picture and said: “But in general ... do not be offended by it. He must be sorry and treated. Treat and regret. "
Toomas Hendrick Ilves, the President of Estonia in 2006-2016, in Russia is known in many ways harsh statements About the past and present relations between Russia and the Baltic country. It was during his reign in the center of Tallinn that Dismantled The figure of a bronze soldier is a monument to the Soviet soldiers who fell in the Second World War. The transfer of this monument to the military cemetery was reason For a diplomatic scandal between Estonia and Russia.
It is not surprising that Ilves himself periodically became the target of critical articles in Russian Media. Particular attention was paid to them as the Estonian president publicly Supported LGBT+rights, including after leaving the post of head of state. In 2014, he even signed The law on cohabitation, which gave a same -sex couples the opportunity to register their partnerships and get part of the opportunities available to heterosexual spouses. At the same time, Ilves was not seen at the gay parades-all the more so, in Estonia they were carried out until 2007 (several previous ones were accompanied by attacks by dissatisfied citizens), and resumed Only ten years later, when Ilves had already left the presidential post.
If you compare the appearance of Ilves in official photography and in a huddled picture, then with some similarity you can notice obvious differences. This is a line of hair growth on the head, and the shape of the nose, and in particular a different shape of the earlobes: in Ilves, they have grown together with the rest of the skin to its very edge, but in a person in an unknown photograph are separated in the lower part.
Persons recognition service Pimeyes defines an expressive person in bright clothes as Carlos Lopes, also known under the pseudonym Charlie Pop - the Argentinean comedian and TV presenter. In 2021 Lopez He died of cancer.
As for the specific photo, her did In 2011, in Buenos Aires on the annual gay parade, Reuters agency photographer Enrique Markaryan. Carlos Lopez in this image can be seen in video report CBS about the event in the Argentine capital.
Photos from the gay parade were published that year, including Russian resources. This did not interfere with other Russian -speaking sources subsequently start using this picture outside of context, often with elements of homophobia or stereotypical representations of the LGBT community. With the name of Toomas Ilves her Started Binding around 2015. Since then, the assertion that the photo captures the Estonian politician has actively spread (primarily in Twitter), and the apogee was the use of NTV in the program, albeit satirical, but without any hint that this is not a former Estonian president. In fact, as already mentioned above, the picture is the Argentine TV presenter Carlos Lopez.
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