Petr Gandalovic is his country's Ambassador to the United States. In mid-April 2013, he was compelled by geographic ignorance to put out the following statement:
"As more information on the origin of the alleged perpetrators is coming to light, I am concerned to note in the social media a most unfortunate misunderstanding in this respect. The X and Y are two very different entities - the X is a Central European country; Y is a part of the Russian Federation."
Which two entities is he talking of here?
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The Czech Republic and Chechnya. In the aftermath of the discovery that the two suspects in the 2013 Boston marathon bombings were ethnic Chechens, the Czechs realised that many ordinary people couldn't tell apart the two countries, and hence the statement (
see more here).