Thomas Nilsen

The world loves Norwegian codfish

All time high: Norway exported whitefish worth €1,32 billion in 2015 and the total seafood sales reached €7,75 billion.
January 05, 2016

Norwegian bank leaves Russia after multi-million loss

Sparebank 1 Nord-Norge has sold all shares in North-West 1 Allicance Bank.
January 05, 2016

EU cash to North Bothnia Line

200 million Swedish kroner put on the table for planning higher-speed railway from Umeå to Skellefteå.
January 04, 2016

EU cash to North Bothnia Line

200 million Swedish kroner put on the table for planning higher-speed railway from Umeå to Skellefteå.
January 04, 2016

Trade with Russia; down, down, down

2015 was a bad year for Norway, Finland and Sweden’s trading with Russia.
January 04, 2016

Swedes drilled dry with Russian partner

No oil discovery at well drilled mid-winter in Norwegian sector of the Barents Sea.
January 04, 2016

“Summer” in Arctic midwinter

Santa got a surprise when he came home after this year’s Christmas ride. Temperatures at the North Pole were above freezing on Tuesday. Longyearbyen on Svalbard had record heat wave on Tuesday.
December 30, 2015

Old titanium submarine sets sail for Barents Sea

After four years of modernisation work at the Nerpa shipyard, the Sierra-class nuclear powered submarine “Pskov” on Monday returned for mission.
December 28, 2015

ConocoPhillips exits Arctic Russia

American oil company sells its 50 percent stake in the high-profile Polar Lights oil company on the tundra in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
December 28, 2015

Finland forbids asylum biking

No asylum seekers have entered Finland on bicycle from the Kola Peninsula since the day before Christmas Eve.
December 27, 2015

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Thomas Nilsen is editor of the Independent Barents Observer with its news desk located in Kirkenes, northern Norway. He has a long experience in media cooperation across the borders in the high north of Europe, both as radio- and newspaper reporter all the way back to the days before the breakup of the Soviet Union. 

Nilsen has been editor of Barents Observer since 2009.

He was Deputy Head of the Norwegian Barents Secretariat from 2004-2009. Until 2003, he worked 12 years for the Bellona Foundation’s Russian study group, focusing on nuclear safety issues and general environmental challenges in northern areas and the Arctic. 

Thomas has been traveling extensively across northern Scandinavia and Arctic Russia since the late 80’s working for different media and organizations. He is also a guide at sea and in remote locations in the Russian north for various groups and regularly lectures on security issues, environmental and socio-economic development.

Thomas Nilsen studied at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

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thomas@thebarentsobserver.com
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