Who were the experts that claimed Nord Stream 2 was a bad idea before it was finished? Today we look at one of them in particular, Alex Fak, an investment analyst who was fired from the Russian-owned Sberbank in 2018 after a shocking report he wrote was leaked to the press. We also hear from Jörg Himmelreich and Aliona Osmolovska, two other experts, about their experience speaking out against Germany's collaboration with Gazprom and Russia long before Nord Stream 2 fell apart.
You can find the expert papers we talk about on the show (and one extra) below:
Alex Fak's report Tickling Giants:
https://globalstocks.ru/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Sberbank-CIB-OG_Tickling-Giants.pdf
Aliona Osmolovska's paper (page 61):
https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/commons-committees/foreign-affairs/2-Letters-from-FCO-and-Embassies-in-relation-Nord-Stream-2.pdf
Jörg Himmelreich's paper:
https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/sml/institute-zentren/zow/publikationen/nord_stream_2_-_publikation.pdf
And a paper from Bendik Solum Whist, who we emailed with for the show but didn't find time to interview:
https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/94432/2008_Nord%20Stream.pdf
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