After three weeks of towing across rough Arctic waters, the 640,000 ton heavy production platform arrives in the remote port of Utrenny. It might never produce liquified natural gas as planned.
Authorities in Beijing admit that the container carrier in 2023 damaged the Balticconnector pipeline in the Gulf of Finland. At the same time, Chinese shipper Hainan Yangpu NewNew Shipping Co is sending three of its other vessels into north Russian waters.
The FSB agent that was part of the historical prisoner swap between Moscow and the West is most likely behind several homicides, including the killing of a local politician in Karelia in 2007.
In an address delivered in the Church of Boris and Gleb, only few hundred meters from the border to Norway, the Metropolitan of Murmansk told a tale about Russia being under attack and its warriors in Ukraine only seeking peace and love.
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.