У капитана ПСЖ – трагедия. Его жена потеряла ребенка
Жена капитана «ПСЖ» Маркиньоса, Карол Кабрино, переживает тяжелую утрату. Она поделилась в соцсетях, что потеряла нерождённого ребенка.
«Мой ребенок стал ангелом», – написала она, признавшись, что сообщила мужу печальную новость по телефону, пока он был в лагере сборной Бразилии.
Карол ждала четвёртого ребенка и с радостью рассказала об этом родным. Сначала беременность протекала хорошо, но во время обследования во Франции сердцебиение малыша исчезло. Врачи сообщили, что необходимо прерывание беременности.
«Я пытаюсь оправиться, хотя физически у меня всё ещё есть живот», – рассказала жена Маркиньоса.
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Source: Максим Лапченко
Михаил МЕЛЬНИК: «Плотницкому нужно быть патриотом своей страны»
Президент Федерации волейбола Украины Михаил Мельник рассказал о подготовке сборной к Лиге наций, а также прокомментировал решение Олега Плотницкого о завершении карьеры в составе «сине-желтых»:
– Михаил Григорьевич, сможет ли сборная достойно выступить в Лиге наций без Олега Плотницкого?
– А разве мы с ним в прошлом году выигрывали Золотую лигу? Выстояли тогда однажды. А что сейчас делать? Плотницкий отказывается играть за сборную, но что мы можем сделать? Это ведь не армия, куда мобилизуют. Сборная будет без него. Волейбол никуда не пропадет.
Понятно, что Плотницкий дал бы нам плюс в игре. Он был нужен сборной. В то же время напомню, что Олег редко показывал высокий класс в матчах за сборную, а в основном сверкал в своем клубе.
– Какова, по-вашему, причина принятого им решения? Может, Олег не хотел травмироваться в матчах за национальную команду?
– Я тоже так думаю. Но нужно быть патриотом своей страны. Как это так – одному из лидеров отказаться во время войны играть за Украину. Но виновата, мол, ФВУ и ее руководитель, – сказал Мельник.
Source: Николай Титюк
Trump’s Order Centered Around Groups, Masculinity and Antagonism, Nobel Laureate Says
The Trump administration is trying to build extractive institutions – entities where power concentrates in the hands of a narrow elite and extract resources from society, James Robinson said during his lectures in Kyiv after he won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2024 alongside his colleague Daron Acemoglu.
But Trump is a symptom of problems that didn’t start overnight. Americans became disillusioned with liberal democracy because it failed to deliver them prosperity since the 1970s.
The wages of average Americans without a graduate degree have decreased since then, making the trust in US officials plummets.
This drove Trump to power for the second time. During his presidency in 2025, he is building a new post-liberal order, showing that liberalism is no longer “the only game in town.”
But as a result of this policy, the US will lose both economic dynamism and global leadership, Robinson said in Kyiv during one of his lectures organised for the general public.
To cope with that, Ukraine needs to make stronger alliances with Europe and build stronger institutions inside the country, according to the economist.
James Robinson arrived in Kyiv for lectures to Ukrainian economists, reporters and the general public, trying to think out loud what would do after Trump came to power and whether it means shifting into a completely new era of economic history.
Robinson alongside Daron Acemoglu devoted their research on how institutions impact the economic prosperity of the country, winning a Nobel Prize in economics last year for their work.
Their most distinctive books on the matter are “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty” and “The Narrow Corridor. How Nations Struggle for Liberty”.
“Why Nations Fail” was translated into Ukrainian 8 years before its author won the Nobel Prize – Ukraine’s financial group Investment Capital Ukraine (ICU) organized the translation.
This is not Robinson’s first time in Kyiv – he visited the capital in 2017 when he was invited by ICU and Kyiv School of Economics, then as only a distinctive economist.
“ICU recognized the significance of his ideas long before the Nobel Committee’s decision,” ICU and KSE press service proudly wrote Kyiv Post in a joint comment. “This time, these organizations have invited him again—now as a Nobel laureate.”
In his lectures in Kyiv, Robinson talked about his and Acemoglu’s research on institutions – but also on what Trump attacked on democracy will mean for the news history era and US economic performance.
Americans chose Trump because of disillusionment with liberal democracy
Trump is trying to undermine checks and balances of the US Constitution, Robinson said.
“He’s getting rid of anyone in the government who opposes him and appointing his own loyal people. It’s a bit like the way Putin operates, I imagine,” he said.
But there are two ideological parts of motivation leading to these actions, according to the professor:
radical libertarianism. anti-liberalism.
Musk and Trump are libertarians who hate the government and think the private sector can do everything. “That’s a Ronald Reagan theme. Is it going to work? Absolutely not, but we can live with that,” Robinson said.
Anti-liberalism means there is an attack on liberal democracy, society and economics “unimaginable for the last century and a half”, he added.
Where did that come from? Robinson speculated that the reason Americans voted for this political state of things – “enormous” disillusionment with liberal democracy that failed to help average Americans prosper.
More than 80% of Americans believe elected officials don’t care what people like them think, a survey conducted by Pew Research Center in April 2024 indicated.
“One of the reasons for that is that shared prosperity has collapsed in the United States,” Robinson said, referring to the graph on wages evolution in the US from MIT economist David Autor’s article.
Living standards of people who only finished high school are substantially lower than they were in the early 1970s, Robinson said. “So, where’s the American dream? Democracy hasn’t been delivering for the majority of people in the United States,” the professor said.
Liberal democracy is not “the only game in town” anymore because liberalism is too individualistic and egalitarian, Robinson said. But people are a social species.
Egalitarianism, the idea that all people should have the same rights and opportunities, is not created by markets – markets create inequality, the professor said.
Venice, Robinson said, was possibly one of the richest countries in the world during late Medieval times.
“But its entire economy was driven into extinction by oligarchization of the political system which then shut down innovation and even banned the economic institutions which Venice used to build its wealth,” he said.
The current “Trump order,” as Robinson speculated in Kyiv, consists of:
Counter-individualistic ideology: instead, it’s based around group identities that include whiteism, white nationalism, xenophobia against foreigners, and masculinity. Antagonism against other groups. Strong hierarchy, including a strong political hierarchy.
This is what Robinson called the “New Post-Liberal Order.” “This is all going to be a disaster for economic performance in the United States,” Robinson concluded.
Trump’s antagonism against liberalism is quite vivid in his attack on universities where liberalism is safely nested. “Why is Trump going after universities? Because that’s where the liberal intellectuals are,” the professor said.
Universities play a key role in US economic dynamism, but Trump doesn’t care about this, Robinson said.
Witch hunting against immigrants is “throwing out one of US major economic assets.” The US has been a magnet for immigrants for a long time, contributing to its economic growth.
It also became one of the key assets to withstand the post-COVID inflation crisis, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said last year during a press briefing on the Global Policy Agenda at the IMF 2024 Spring Meetings.
“The US is benefiting from abundant labor coming across the border. It creates a domestic political problem and not everybody who crosses the border adds positively to the economy, but that labor supply also gave the United States another comparative advantage. Wages are not pushing up because there is no strong pressure because of the lack of labor on wages growth,” Georgieva said during the briefing.
If immigrants in the US are no longer a major workforce, wages might increase, pushing inflation higher than it is now, deepening the risk for an economic crisis in the US.
In Kyiv, James Robinson also expressed his concern about “loyalty above else” principle in the Trump administration. By firing a lot of people supporting the state, there’s no capacity to absorb shocks anymore in the US economy.
“So when a crisis comes, you don’t have the people, capacity and experience to deal with it,” the Nobel Prize laureate said.
Trump’s era is moving the US into a new historical period where it may lose its global leadership. But it has happened before in history with many nations and empires.
What is the plan for Ukraine during Trump’s era?
Ukraine will be left “out in the cold” during the Trump post-liberal era, James Robinson said. “But Trump is only a symptom of the problem: the problems are much deeper.”
“Don’t do what the Democratic Party in the United States are doing: just waiting and hoping Trump is going to go away. They’re still doing it – it’s pathetic. It’s not gonna happen. He will go away, but there will be somebody else after him,” the economist said.
Robinson doesn’t see any “counter-project” powerful enough to stop Trump and his political ideology at the moment of delivering his lecture in Kyiv on March, 20.
Much of the problem is that the state apparatus within the executive branch enforces the illegal decisions Trump makes or commits the illegal action under his orders. He has already defied judiciary rulings and simply disobeyed court orders, such as illegally deporting foreign nationals to maximum security El Salvador prisons when specifically told to stop the action.
“Just this week, they shot down the United States Institute for Peace. Completely illegal. And how was that enforced? The police enforced it,” Robinson said.
The opposition forces could be, for example, within the current ruling party or on the streets, Robinson suggested while speaking to reporters in Kyiv after the open lecture.
When US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt started introducing his 1933 New Deal legislation to get the country out of the Great Depression, the Supreme Court ruled some measures in the sweeping laws as unconstitutional, Robinson recalled.
Roosevelt then wanted to increase the number of judges on the US Supreme Court to counter votes that some provisions of the New Deal were unconstitutional. But eventually, it was the Congress, controlled by democrats at that time, that stopped Roosevelt’s increase in the number justices serving on the powerful high court that some deemed unconstitutional.
“The society pushed back [against increasing the highest court size]. Some lawmakers of President Roosevelt’s own party wouldn’t support packing the court. Whereas [in 2025] you see the Republican Party just doing nothing,” Robinson said, replying to a Kyiv Post question during his meeting with Ukrainian reporters at the Kyiv School of Economics.
But there is good news.
Although the agenda in the White House will not get “warmer” for Ukraine, the good news is that Europeans are also “in the cold.” For now, it makes Europe Ukraine’s friends.
However, there’s also a threat because there are anti-liberalism movements in Europe as well, for example, in Hungary, France or Sweden.
That Ukraine is currently fighting a war against Russia’s 11-year-long invasion could turn out to be the driving force to build institutions, not a barrier to recovery, Robinson said. This is how South Korea prospered despite having a threat from North Korea for 60 years.
“You can do it in the shadows. The shadow can be an impetus to change, an incentive to get things moving,” Robinson said.
Source: Olena Hrazhdan