Atle Staalesen

One of Aleksey Navalny’s anti-corruption fighters is forcefully sent to military service in Novaya Zemlya

It is a carefully planned isolation of our colleague Ruslan Shaveddinov and it is set up by Putin himself, says the opposition leader.
December 25, 2019

Equinor gets ready to drill new Arctic well

The company intends to add resources to its Johan Castberg project.
December 23, 2019

Murmansk hopes for investment hike as it secures status as free economic zone

The far northern city says tax benefits are necessary for it to become the «Capital of the Arctic.»
December 20, 2019

Brand new icebreaking condensate tanker arrives in Sabetta

The «Yuri Kuchiev» is built in Finland, owned by Greek shipper Dynagas and now breaking its way through Arctic ice on its maiden trip to the Russian North.
December 20, 2019

Putin’s new Arctic law paves way for biggest ever industrialization in icy north

Offshore oil, liquified natural gas and the petrochemical industry will soon benefit from big tax cuts in new Arctic projects.
December 19, 2019

On remote and frail tundra lands of Yamal could come a huge petrochemical plant

Gazprom intends to produce millions of tons of plastics in the Arctic.
December 18, 2019

As ice retreats, oilmen get new acreage for drilling along Arctic coast

Russian oil and gas regulators are liberalizing procedures for oil extraction along the country’s remote northern coasts.
December 17, 2019

On Rosatom’s wishing list is a large nuclear-powered oil tanker that can break through thick Arctic ice

It must be able to carry at least 100,000 tons and sail across the icy waters of the Northern Sea Route, says deputy head of the Russian state nuclear power company.
December 16, 2019

Amid state go-ahead for Arctic coal, growing doubts about big dig

State experts approve VostokCoal’s plans to export millions of tons of black rocks from the Taymyr Peninsula, but the grand project might not materialize.
December 13, 2019

Militaristic youth movement expands in borderland

Yunarmiya, the «youth army» established by the Russian Ministry of Defense, recruits more youngsters in the border towns of Nikel and Zapolyarny.
December 12, 2019

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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
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