Atle Staalesen

Top Russian legislators question Norwegian sovereignty over Svalbard

Norway is violating the Svalbard Treaty from 1920, says Deputy Speaker in the Russian Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev following the Nordic country's unwillingness to facilitate transportation of Russian goods to the archipelago.
June 29, 2022

The U.S Los Angeles-class sub that was redesigned to a Russian Delta has lost its "Z"

Someone removed the Nazi-inspired war symbol from the mural in Russian Navy town Gadzhievo.
June 29, 2022

Aid on the way: Murmansk sends toilet paper, underpants, uniforms to warriors in Ukraine

According to the leader of a major relief effort organised in Murmansk, the Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine are starving and often do not have proper clothes and shoes.
June 27, 2022

Nikolai Patrushev: border to Nordic countries must be strengthened

The protection of national interests in the border areas is gaining extraordinary importance, says Secretary of Russia's Security Council.
June 24, 2022

A lonely politician from the Russian North speaks up against war

Viktor Vorobyev has been arrested for his participation in an anti-war rally and repeatedly bashed Putin's regional establishment. In April, the member of the State Council in the Komi Republic became the first Russian regional legislator to be put on the country's list of so-called Foreign Agents.
June 22, 2022

Amid Moscow's bloody onslaught, north Russian leader says he is ready to rebuild occupied land

Governor Vladimir Uyba and his Komi Republic might get responsibility for rebuilding of healthcare in Luhansk.
June 22, 2022

We are building a 'Noah's Ark' in the Arctic, says Russia's most powerful oil company leader

A great Flood is on its way from the West, Igor Sechin warns. He finds salvation in Arctic project Vostok Oil.
June 20, 2022

As Russia turns towards Asia, this year's first vessel heads east on Northern Sea Route

Russia's brand new icebreaker "Sibir" this week broke through the most icy parts of the Northern Sea Route. Western sanctions will make the Arctic route to Asia more important, Moscow argues
June 17, 2022

The U.S attack submarine in Russian Navy base Gadzhievo has been repainted to a Russian sub carrying a "Z"

"What a splendid mural has appeared in Gadzhievo," regional Governor Andrei Chibis exclaims after painters hastily redesigned the house wall in the Northern Fleet base.
June 17, 2022

American engineers deal blow to Russian Arctic oligarch

U.S oil service company Baker Hughes will no longer provide engineering services to Russian LNG developers. That creates another serious headache for Novatek owner Leonid Mikhelson and his LNG projects in the Arctic.
June 16, 2022

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Atle is journalist and Publisher of the Independent Barents Observer.

In 2002, he founded the Barents Observer. He was editor until 2009 and later worked as journalist and project coordinator for several European cross-border cooperation projects. In late 2015, following a conflict over editorial rights, he 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