Intellectual “doping”

This week the Editors hosted Oleksandr Hlyvynsky, press secretary of the national soccer team, and presented him with copies of the Ukraine Incognita book series, as promised earlier.

Editor-in-chief Larysa Ivshyna stressed in her opening address that the national team players are perhaps the only ones to have gifted Ukraine with this passing year’s inspiration: “We saw new horizons, even if for three days. I am convinced that sports, soccer in particular, can convey meaningful messages and images. This is a psychological model that can give this country very much indeed. We finally saw a national team whose members could sing the national anthem. Not surprisingly, this new quality was reflected in their performance in the field.”