In August 2023, the media and Telegram channels reported that the candidate for the post of head of the Latvian government, Evik Silin, participated in the filming of porn films before coming to the civil service. We checked the reliability of such publications.

August 14 Prime Minister of Latvia Krishyanis Carins announcedthat is resigned. Two days later, the New Unity party, which has the largest faction in the Latvian parliament, I put forward To the post of future head of the government of welfare Evik Silin. August 24 President Edgar Rinkevich instructed She will form a new composition of the Cabinet of Ministers.

Even before the official approval of the candidacy of Silini, August 21, the Tsargrad TV channel Published Telegram has a note about politics. In it, the future Prime Minister of Latvia is called “Classes to say, a woman”, who “dreamed of becoming a porn actress, passed the castings and in the sweat of her face literally begged her to take her in an“ adult movie ”.” It is clarified that in “Funny Films” Silina starred under the pseudonym Evita and “had no success”. At the time of writing this parsing, the post of “Tsargrad” scored 33,000 views.

Among other media who told about the career of politics in the porn industry, are Russian Eadaily, Pravda.ru And "Khakassia Inform". In Telegram, posts on this subject (attention: some of them contain pornographic content) posted a publicist Armen Gasparyan (83,000 views), channels "BelVPO"(222 000),"Urgent and accurately"(29,000), Diana Spletni Live ✌🏻 (16,000) "Superstitious democracy"(15,000),"This is another"(15,000),"Alexey Stefanov"(15,000), Webm⚡️2.0 (14,000) and others. Similar publications appeared in Facebook, social networks X (former Twitter) and Livejournal.

In most publications containing at least some details about the failed porn-guard of the Latvian politician, it is specified that Silina allegedly participated in the casting of the French director Pierre Woodman In 2015. Some authors clarify that the casting took place in Moscow. Pravda.ru sets out the general version of events as a whole, but claims that the case took place six years earlier.

A video mounted from a fragment is applied to a number of publications in Telegram and social networks interview, which Evika Silinya gave the Latvian Delfi TV on August 18, and excerpts of a pornographic video of unknown origin. Some Internet users limited themselves to the spread of screenshots from this video, which, apparently, were designed to emphasize the external similarity of the politician and actress.

"Verified" analyzed the portrait, stated, young Silini using the service Pimeyes - It allows you to find photos available on the Internet shown in the picture. Numerous porn sites, as well as the databases of actors and actresses participating in the filming of such content, were predictably in the search results. In one of them, Internet Adult Films Database (IAFD), we found a girl from the video - reportedthat she worked under the pseudonyms of Evita, April, Jessica H., Jessica and Sylwia, and Latvia is indicated.

On this, at least some coincidence with the version set forth in the media and Telegram channels end. The compilers of the IAFD base know about the 14 rollers in which the actress starred - this is not quite consistent with the statement of a completely failed career. The site also states that for the first time Evita starred in porn in 2008, for the last time in 2014, and in her filmography there is a video from the Woodman Casting series-according to IAFD, it was shot in 2011.

On the site of Woodman, the video really was published In 2011, however, the subtitle in the video itself says that he was shot in July 2009 in Moscow. The description of Evita is presented as “Girl from Latvia”, at the very beginning of the video she says she is 21 years old. In communicating with Woodman Porn actress helps a translator from English to Latvian.

We turn to the biography of Silini. She was born in 1975 - thus, in 2009, when the actress, under the pseudonym Evita, starred in a porno -roller in Moscow, the policy was 34 years old. From official biography On the website of the Latvian government it follows that by that time, Silin was a practicing lawyer for more than ten years, and before that she worked for several years by legal adviser. At the same time, the politician, in addition to his native Latvian, is fluent in Russian and English - it is not clear why she (if she really took part in porn codes) required the help of the translator.

Although not the most clear for the resume, the wording of the occupation of a private lawyer practice from late 2003 to spring 2012 can provoke assumptions that the silin hides a failed career in porn, in fact, such a conclusion is groundless. The same official biography of the candidate for the prime minister of Latvia says that the politician is the mother of three children. Her eldest daughter, Evelina, was born in November 2003, about this testify Silini's publications on Facebook, where she posted a photo from the girl’s birthday celebration. Middle Son, Matis, was born in 2007-Silina in October 2022 in the same social network Congratulated The football team where her child plays is playing with the victory in the Latvian football championship among young men of this year of birth. The youngest son of Silini also plays football, and the successes of Christs Mom also notes the posts on Facebook-in September 2019 she Rejoice The victory of his school at the tournament in the Latvian Marute. The publication says that the boy played in the U10 team (all participants are no older than ten years old). So just in 2009, when the actress under the pseudonym Evita participated in a porno, Silina either only gave birth to her third child, or she was pregnant.

“Verified” also compared the faces of the girl from the 2009 video with photographs of the Latvian politician. For this we used the service Faceshape. After analyzing the artificial intelligence algorithms, FaceShape appreciated the similarity of the Evita porn actress and Eviki Silini at 7.89% in the case of modern portrait last and 10.03% in the case of The earliest (January 2012) from the pictures we found, published on her Facebook page. At the same time, if you upload two silver photos taken with a difference of more than ten years into the service, the result will be much higher - 90.98%.

Comparison of the portrait of the actress Evita (left) and modern photography by Eviki Silini (right). Source: FaceShape

Comparison of the portrait of the actress Evita (left) and photos of Eviki Silini 2012 (right). Source: FaceShape

Comparison of two portraits of Eviki Silini, modern (left) and 2012 (right). Source: FaceShape

Distribution of the statement about the porn guardian of the future Prime Minister of Latvia (or at least its active phase) began on August 18, when the relevant statements appeared in the NRA tabloid (on Latvian And Russian languages), on Reddit and in the comments on the portal Pietiek -According to our colleagues from the Latvian edition of Delfi, he has an ambiguous reputation, since there are regularly published materials that have signs of “black” PR companies. The next day, post on this topic Placed In his Telegram channel, Latvian journalist Evgeny Sharfranek (3,500 views). These examples mentions only the possible cooperation of Silini with Woodman. Soon there were more detailed messages - for example, in tweet The publicist Mikhail Shakhnazarov also contains a viral screenshot and there are no reservations that another woman can be depicted on it.

Thus, there is no evidence that in 2009, Evik Silinya participated in a porn building in Moscow under the pseudonym Evita. At that time, the future politician was either preparing for the birth of her third child, or recently gave birth to him. Realue such statements and other evidence. Comparison of the photos of the candidate for the position of Prime Minister Latvia and porn actress proves that these are two different women.

September 4 It became knownthat the state security service (SGB) of Latvia will consider the statement of deputies from the New Unity party, which is also represented by Silin, about the “possible illegal interference in domestic political processes”, carried out through slander against the politician. Among the episodes that have to be studied by the SGB, publications about the porn guardier of the future prime minister are also mentioned.

"Verified" thanks journalists of the Russian -speaking version of the portal DELFI.LV For help in preparing this analysis.

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