Separated At Birth

Ceremonial president of former Czechoslovak republic seeks same. Must be medium height and and medium build, with grey hair cut short, and not unstylish glasses. Trimmed grey moustache and willingness to support the current governing coalition a plus.

Gasparovic vis a vis Klaus.  Thanks to CTK photographer for framing the shot in such a way as to point out what should have been obvious.

It has taken 15 years, many elections and several hairstylists, but Slovakia and the Czech Republic have finally begun the process of re-convergence, beginning from the top down.  Are two countries really separate if you cannot tell them apart anymore?

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Leave a Reply

XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>