| NEW ELECTIONS CALLED IN THE WORLD OF THE U.N. INSPECTOR
by Jason Loewith on 10/08/2008 03:45:00 PM
Those of you that have attended a U.N. INSPECTOR post-show discussion know that certain events in the Ukraine in 2000 prompted David Farr to update Gogol's play THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR. At that time, a reporter named Georgiy Gongadze disappeared a week after the publication of his article about government corruption; he was later found murdered, his body mutilated, and suspicion fell on President Leonid Kuchma for ordering the execution. Farr modeled the character of Lizaveta Korshnik in THE U.N. INSPECTOR on Gongadze.
In 2004, the "Orange Revolution" swept away the corruption of Kuchma's regime, and replaced it with Viktor Yushchenko's relatively democratic administration.
But just today, Yushchenko dissolved his own government and called for early elections in the wake of his own Prime Minister's "thirst for power". The two have been at odds throughout the government's tenure in the past four years, but it has reached a boiling point:
"I am convinced, deeply convinced that the democratic coalition was ruined by one thing alone -- human ambition. The ambition of one person," he said in his address, shown on television while he was making a visit to Italy.Labels: The U.N. Inspector
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