Atle Staalesen

Member of European Parliament bikes to Norway's Arctic coast, makes statement about need for new railway

A big majority of the EU Parliament Committee of Transport would support the projected railway line from northern Finland to the Norwegian Arctic shore, says MEP Michael Cramer.
August 18, 2017

Researchers mapped Barents Sea, found rare whale population

But they were not allowed into Russian waters
August 16, 2017

Moratorium on offshore Arctic licenses will continue, says Russian minister

«It will last at least until year 2020».
August 16, 2017

Put up memorial plate for victim of Stalin purges, was sued by Arkhangelsk authorities

Initiators pinned to the wall of the dilapidated downtown building a plate devoted to Ignatii Bessonov, a man murdered by Stalin’s NKVD in 1938. That was not well perceived by the regional Cultural Heritage authority.
August 15, 2017

Rosneft, Gazprom map new Arctic resources

License areas in the Pechora Sea and south Kara Sea are up for seismic shooting.
August 14, 2017

Anniversary voyage to North Pole bears testimony of a changing Arctic

Captain Yuri Kuchiev’s historical voyage to the top of the world in 1977 almost stalled in thick ice. This week’s 40 years anniversary voyage will smoothly make it through an ice cap melting at record speed.
August 14, 2017

New Arctic LNG project will create 60 thousand new jobs, says Novatek leader Mikhelson

Only the new plant in Murmansk, a key project component, will employ up to ten thousand people, the company chairman says to Prime Minister Medvedev.
August 11, 2017

Sky-rocketing growth for remotest Russian Arctic airport

Boom-town Sabetta in the Yamal Peninsula sees a doubling in the number of air passengers. Up to 400.000 people could take-off and land on site in 2017
August 11, 2017

Youth Army takes Russia with a storm

The military-patriotic movement Yunarmiya now totals more than 140,000 youngsters. Many of them are from the Russian North.
August 10, 2017

Novatek sheds light on its next major Arctic gas project

The Arctic LNG-2 will be bigger, cheaper and based on new technology put together by engineers in Murmansk.
August 09, 2017

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Atle is journalist and Director of the Independent Barents Observer.

In 2002, he founded the Barents Observer, which in the period 2005-2015 was hosted by the Norwegian Barents Secretariat.

Atle was editor until 2009 and later worked as journalist and project coordinator for several European cross-border cooperation projects. He quit his job in the Barents Secretariat late 2015 following a conflict over editorial rights and subsequently re-established the Barents Observer as an independent and non-profit stock company along with the rest of the newspaper crew.  

Atle has a degree in Russian studies from the University of Oslo and studied journalism at the Moscow State University.

atle@thebarentsobserver.com
@atlestaalesen