Don't Show My Face

This episode contains strong language. Sasha tells about a return visit to Kyiv, one year after the start of the full-scale invasion. Links to help Ukraine: https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate-en/#donate-army-card https://prytulafoundation.org/donation Follow us on Instagram and Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/dontshowmyfacepodcast/ https://mobile.twitter.com/dsmfpodcast Original music for this episode by James Reed. Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site This episode was produced by James Reed. Don't Show My Face is a production of Invisible Pictures Germany, 2023.

This episode contains strong language. One small German village has become the focus of the worldwide fight against climate change. Activists are risking their lives to stop coal from being harvested and burned. To donate to the activists: https://luetzerathlebt.info/ Follow us on Instagram and Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/dontshowmyfacepodcast/ https://mobile.twitter.com/dsmfpodcast Original music for this episode by Husky Gawenda: https://open.spotify.com/track/0LLInysix3EBxWaBgTVqo1?si=ba4a7d3aba184807 Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site This episode was produced by James Reed. Don't Show My Face is a production of Invisible Pictures Germany, 2022.

This episode contains strong language. Alex Fak used to work at the largest bank in Russia. He was fired in 2018 after a report he wrote about Nord Stream 2 was leaked to the press. He's never spoken publicly about what happened, until now. To hear our previous episodes about Alex Fak, listen to Parts 4 and 5 of our series Big Mistake, in the Don't Show My Face feed on Spotify. Donate to help Ukraine: https://www.projectnadiya.org/hilfslieferung https://shpytal.com/musicians-defend-ukraine/ Follow us on Instagram and Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/dontshowmyfacepodcast/ https://mobile.twitter.com/dsmfpodcast Original music for this episode by Husky Gawenda: https://open.spotify.com/track/0LLInysix3EBxWaBgTVqo1?si=ba4a7d3aba184807 Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site This episode was produced by James Reed. Don't Show My Face is a production of Invisible Pictures Germany, 2022.

What's happened to Nord Stream since our series Big Mistake ended? The pipelines exploded. Today we catch you up. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/dontshowmyfacepodcast/ https://mobile.twitter.com/dsmfpodcast Original music for this episode by Husky Gawenda: https://open.spotify.com/track/0LLInysix3EBxWaBgTVqo1?si=ba4a7d3aba184807 Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site This episode was produced by James Reed. Don't Show My Face is a production of Invisible Pictures Germany, 2022.

How did Germany become the money-laundering paradise of Europe? We talk to journalist Markus Zydra about his new book about the subject, co-authored by Andreas Frank, Dreckiges Geld: https://www.piper.de/buecher/dreckiges-geld-isbn-978-3-492-07089-8 Subscribe to the Don't Show My Face podcast here: https://anchor.fm/dont-show-my-face/subscribe Follow DSMF on Instagram and Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/dontshowmyfacepodcast/ https://mobile.twitter.com/dsmfpodcast Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site This episode was produced by James Reed. Don't Show My Face is a production of Invisible Pictures Germany, 2022.

Why is the chess world talking about rectal searches? Subscribe to the Don't Show My Face podcast here: https://anchor.fm/dont-show-my-face/subscribe Follow DSMF on Instagram and Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/dontshowmyfacepodcast/ https://mobile.twitter.com/dsmfpodcast Original music for this episode by Evan Lawrence: @e_law20 Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site This episode was produced by James Reed. Don't Show My Face is a production of Invisible Pictures Germany, 2022.

The chance to say something more than just hello. If you want to learn Ukrainian check out: https://www.youtube.com/c/SpeakUkrainian Subscribe to the Don't Show My Face podcast here: https://anchor.fm/dont-show-my-face/subscribe Follow DSMF on Instagram and Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/dontshowmyfacepodcast/ https://mobile.twitter.com/dsmfpodcast Original music for this episode by Husky Gawenda: https://open.spotify.com/track/6R49cUPvK6CVTUsmQHHFTx?si=27185731c5334e2a Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site This episode was produced by James Reed. Don't Show My Face is a production of Invisible Pictures Germany, 2022.

Billy goes back home, in more ways than one. The charity we are raising money for, until August 5th: https://stuetzende-haende.de/ Subscribe to the Don't Show My Face podcast here: https://anchor.fm/dont-show-my-face/subscribe Follow DSMF on Instagram and Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/dontshowmyfacepodcast/ https://mobile.twitter.com/dsmfpodcast Original music for this episode by Kenn Kweder: https://open.spotify.com/track/7tOPFsOQWmZJJznM2O8JyI?si=f153f9b3d80e4d64 Kenn Kweder's website: http://kennkweder.com/ Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site This episode was produced by James Reed. Don't Show My Face is a production of Invisible Pictures Germany, 2022.

Billy tells the story of how, when he was still just a kid, he got hooked on heroin. Background information on the American opioid epidemic: Science VS podcast episode How America Got Hooked: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4KhVSxUoPVCrU3G4CvYP6Y?si=0J3QAp6dRyGLa20Q8aT7ZQ Last Week Tonight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pdPrQFjo2o Dopesick tv series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzrLrUG2QVk Subscribe to the Don't Show My Face podcast here: https://anchor.fm/dont-show-my-face/subscribe Follow DSMF on Instagram and Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/dontshowmyfacepodcast/ https://mobile.twitter.com/dsmfpodcast Original music for this episode by Kenn Kweder: https://open.spotify.com/track/7tOPFsOQWmZJJznM2O8JyI?si=f153f9b3d80e4d64 Kenn Kweder's website: http://kennkweder.com/ Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site This episode was produced by James Reed. Don't Show My Face is a production of Invisible Pictures Germany, 2022.

How did a junkie who lived his entire life in the US end up being deported to Germany, and how did he die less than ten years later? Subscribe to the Don't Show My Face podcast here: https://anchor.fm/dont-show-my-face/subscribe Follow DSMF on Instagram and Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/dontshowmyfacepodcast/ https://mobile.twitter.com/dsmfpodcast Original music for this episode by Kenn Kweder: https://open.spotify.com/track/7tOPFsOQWmZJJznM2O8JyI?si=f153f9b3d80e4d64 Kenn Kweder's website: http://kennkweder.com/ Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site This episode was produced by James Reed. Don't Show My Face is a production of Invisible Pictures Germany, 2022.

Meet Billy, an American junkie in Frankfurt, Germany. Lexicon of drug-related (and German) words: "H" - heroin, "speedball" - mix of heroin and cocaine, "Stein" - literally the word 'stone' which is street slang for crack, "Pfandflasche" - recycling bottles that can be returned for money, "Hauptbahnhof" - central train station. Follow DSMF on Instagram and Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/dontshowmyfacepodcast/ https://mobile.twitter.com/dsmfpodcast Original music for this episode by Kenn Kweder: https://open.spotify.com/track/7tOPFsOQWmZJJznM2O8JyI?si=f153f9b3d80e4d64 Kenn Kweder's website: http://kennkweder.com/ Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site This episode was produced by James Reed. Don't Show My Face is a production of Invisible Pictures Germany, 2022.

Why didn't anyone listen to the experts who warned against the Nord Stream project? In the final episode of our series about the pipeline we try to answer that question and tie up a few loose ends. Correction: We imply that US Ambassador Richard Grenell's letter could have been read by journalists in 2018, however it was first sent and reported on in early January, 2019. The Sigmar Gabriel interview about the Nord Stream project can be found here: https://www.atlantik-bruecke.org/en/nord-stream-2-was-a-mistake/ We also want to give a shoutout to the podcast that helped us find corruption experts, including Oksana Huss, a podcast aptly enough called KickBack: https://open.spotify.com/show/4zeOYNu3w3A3OlIn5qW2VI?si=84689fcfbf0943fc And finally you can hear the reading of the Calvino story we referenced (in Italian) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVHIz3KqPw0&t=15s Follow us on Instagram and Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/dontshowmyfacepodcast/ https://mobile.twitter.com/dsmfpodcast Original music for this episode by Husky Gawenda: https://open.spotify.com/track/0LLInysix3EBxWaBgTVqo1?si=ba4a7d3aba184807 Additional original music by Evan Lawrence. Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site This episode was produced by James Reed. Don't Show My Face is a production of Invisible Pictures Germany, 2022.

Is it just a coincidence that one of Gazprom's most ardent critics was murdered near the Kremlin in 2015? That's the story we're looking at in this part of the Big Mistake series: the life and murder of Boris Nemtsov. To become a subscriber, go to: https://anchor.fm/dont-show-my-face/subscribe Here are a few links to Nemtsov documentaries and further information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vExk___aiv4&t=445s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM04zNbsaJg https://zona.media/chronicle/nemtsov-chronicle#40008 Follow us on Instagram and Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/dontshowmyfacepodcast/ https://mobile.twitter.com/dsmfpodcast Original music for this episode by Husky Gawenda: https://open.spotify.com/track/0LLInysix3EBxWaBgTVqo1?si=ba4a7d3aba184807 Additional original music by Evan Lawrence. Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site This episode was produced by James Reed. Don't Show My Face is a production of Invisible Pictures Germany, 2022.

Can Europe rest easy knowing that 25% of the steel for Nord Stream 1 came from a Russian supplier? Or knowing that 60% of Nord Stream 2 is made from Russian steel? Even though the pipeline is not operating, Nord Stream 2 is currently full of natural gas, a highly toxic substance. Today we look at a deadly tragedy that occurred in 2005 and examine what can go wrong when steel isn't as strong as it's supposed to be. You can listen to Kseniia's podcast, Western Agents, here: https://open.spotify.com/show/7bybQT4dMp6GuX2ryDgn5b?si=3e459c870ee34b3b Follow us on Instagram and Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/dontshowmyfacepodcast/ https://mobile.twitter.com/dsmfpodcast Original music for this episode by Evan Lawrence, Lesik Omodada, and Husky Gawenda: https://open.spotify.com/track/0LLInysix3EBxWaBgTVqo1?si=ba4a7d3aba184807 Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site This episode was produced by James Reed. Don't Show My Face is a production of Invisible Pictures Germany, 2022.

What else did Alex Fak have to say about his explosive report? We go over the rest of the story in this episode and begin looking into OMK, the pipe supplier that manufactured steel pipes for both Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2. To become a subscriber, go to: https://anchor.fm/dont-show-my-face/subscribe Follow us on Instagram and Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/dontshowmyfacepodcast/ https://mobile.twitter.com/dsmfpodcast Original music for this episode by Evan Lawrence, Lesik Omodada, and Husky Gawenda: https://open.spotify.com/track/0LLInysix3EBxWaBgTVqo1?si=ba4a7d3aba184807 Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site This episode was produced by James Reed. Don't Show My Face is a production of Invisible Pictures Germany, 2022.

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 Follow us on Instagram and Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/dontshowmyfacepodcast/ https://mobile.twitter.com/dsmfpodcast Original music for this episode by Evan Lawrence, Lesik Omodada, and Husky Gawenda: https://open.spotify.com/track/0LLInysix3EBxWaBgTVqo1?si=ba4a7d3aba184807 Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site James Reed produced this episode. Don't Show My Face is a production of Invisible Pictures Germany, 2022.

Only one natural gas pipeline in the world (as far as we know) had an actual rollercoaster that it sponsored: the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. This week we watch videos of that rollercoaster, try not to get dizzy, and talk with Ralph Bollmann from the Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung: https://www.faz.net/redaktion/ralph-bollmann-11790955.html Here you can watch the same video (from the Ride Review channel) that we watched, of the Blue Fire megacoaster at Europa Park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T18JVHX2Ypo Follow us on Instagram and Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/dontshowmyfacepodcast/ https://mobile.twitter.com/dsmfpodcast Original music for this episode by Evan Lawrence, and also Husky Gawenda: https://open.spotify.com/track/0LLInysix3EBxWaBgTVqo1?si=ba4a7d3aba184807 Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site This episode was produced by James Reed. Don't Show My Face is a production of Invisible Pictures Germany, 2022.

How did a man who used to work for East Germany's secret police force, who is also close friends with Vladimir Putin, how did he end up becoming known as Mr. Pipeline, the guy who built the Nord Stream pipelines? And was he doing his job more ethically than most people in the West would assume? We look into that this week and hear from multiple employees who worked on the Nord Stream project. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/dontshowmyfacepodcast/ https://mobile.twitter.com/dsmfpodcast Original music for this episode by Evan Lawrence and Husky Gawenda: https://open.spotify.com/track/0LLInysix3EBxWaBgTVqo1?si=ba4a7d3aba184807 Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site Voice-over acting provided by Henning Badrow and Marilyn Isles: https://misislesvoices.com/ James Reed produced this episode. Don't Show My Face is a production of Invisible Pictures Germany, 2022.

When Germany decided not to turn on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, it broke a bond it had formed years earlier with Russia. And it admitted that it had made a mistake, a big mistake, one that has a price tag: 9 billion euros. In the first episode of our series investigating the Nord Stream project, we talk with Ben Aris and Svitlana Zalishchuk and get to the bottom of some controversial words: old and leaky. Who do they actually apply to? Russia or Ukraine? And we hear from a Nord Stream insider, a source we're giving the alias Frank. Listen to our theme music here on Spotify at the artist page of Husky Gawenda: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1sNJ4MiIoUC38wEPkXdW1W?si=vrDfN98xTg6e0uJ2jrK1iQ Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site This episode was produced by James Reed and co-hosted by Giulia Carbonaro. Don't Show My Face is produced by Invisible Pictures Germany, 2022. https://www.instagram.com/dontshowmyfacepodcast/ https://mobile.twitter.com/dsmfpodcast

We interview a philologist, an expert on words and language, about the role words have played in the Russian invasion of 2022. Also featured in this episode is Inna from the YouTube channel Speak Ukrainian: https://www.youtube.com/c/SpeakUkrainian Follow us on Insta at dontshowmyfacepodcast or on Twitter at dsmfpodcast. Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site This episode was produced by James Reed, with help from Giulia Carbonaro and Monika Hellstern. Original music by Evan Lawrence and Lesik Omodada. Invisible Pictures Germany 2022. UPDATE: This episode was corrected on April 18th, 2022 to expand the story about the one-word test Ukrainian soldiers used to sniff out Russians pretending to be Ukrainian. The original version stated falsely that one of the words relating to the test story is Russian, when in fact it is also a Ukrainian word. If you previously heard the original version and want to hear the update, you can refresh Spotify, listen on another device, or delete your cache to be able to. The updated section begins at the timestamp 14:15.

We interviewed a bunch of Ukrainian artists to hear about their individual experiences in the war. This episode includes an actor serving in the army, an acrobat stuck in the occupied city Kherson, and an illustrator who tells about how they conceived the artwork for a bittersweet story of a dying man trying to serve his country as best as he can. The artists featured in this episode are from the DAKH Theatre in Kiev, along with the musicians Postman and Renie Cares, the project War.Stories.From.Ukraine and illustrator liubovmiau, Denis Karachkats the cellist and Oleksandr Osipov the photographer/filmmaker, Illia Bondarenko the violinist, and the music producer from shpytalrecords. Produced and scored by James Reed with a special thanks to Giulia Carbonaro and Pauline Lauch. Made by Invisible Pictures Germany 2022. Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site UPDATE: When speaking about the illustrator from War Stories From Ukraine we used the personal pronoun "she" when the artist liubovmiau prefers "they." We have reached out to them to apologize for our mistake.

In this week's episode we talk to experts Inna Nelles and Daria Kaleniuk, and comb through massive amounts of reporting, to find out whether corruption, and Ukraine's effort to get rid of it, was the real reason Putin invaded the country in 2022. Produced by James Reed with help from Giulia Carbonaro. Original music by Evan Lawrence. 2022 Invisible Pictures Germany. Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site

Who better to tackle the logistics of how to get medicine and food into Ukraine than a team of Ukrainian wedding planners? In this story we look at that team and their collaboration with Project Nadiya, an aid organization based in Germany. This episode was produced by James Reed with help from Giulia Carbonaro and Pauline Lauch. Original music by Evan Lawrence and Cub & Wolf. Produced by Invisible Pictures Germany, 2022. Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site

We talk with Mattia Nelles, a political analyst who has been studying Ukraine for nearly a decade and discuss efforts in the country after the 2014 revolution to reform corruption in Ukraine, efforts that have now been stalled by the Russian invasion. And we hear a story from inside the legal system of Kherson, about three men who are working to overthrow the city's legally-elected government, to establish a Russia-friendly territory. Produced by James Reed for Invisible Pictures Germany. Original music by Evan Lawrence. Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site

We investigate a convoy of white trucks that showed up in Kherson, Ukraine in early March, 2022, a few days after the city fell under Russian control. Through interviews with locals and eyewitnesses we try to get to the bottom of the reason the trucks travelled to Kherson, and whether they were bringing actors there to participate in Russian news broadcasts. This episode was produced by James Reed, with help from Giulia Carbonaro and original music by Evan Lawrence. Don't Show My Face is a production of Invisible Pictures Germany. Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site

We hear from Anna, who is hiding out with her family up in the Carpathian Mountains in Western Ukraine. And we hear from Oleg, a 24 year old law student struggling to bring food and medical supplies to people in his hometown of Kherson in Eastern Ukraine, which is currently occupied by Russian forces. Don't Show My Face is a production of Invisible Pictures Germany. Follow us on Instagram @dontshowmyfacepodcast for updates and images from episodes. Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site