Atle Staalesen

Money pours in for more tundra oil

Russia's remote Yamal region might in the course of the next 3 years see its oil and gas production grow with more than a third.
December 11, 2019

Deployment of S-400 in Arctic bases creates air defense shield over northern Russia

The anti-aircraft missile system will over the next years be deployed in all the country’s Arctic divisions, Northern Fleet Head Commander Aleksandr Moiseev says.
December 11, 2019

A management center for Arctic shipping is coming to Murmansk

From here we will see and manage everything on the Northern Sea Route, managing authority Rosatom says.
December 06, 2019

Russian Navy 2019: Two new submarines, 23 new surface vessels and 480 new kinds of armament

President Putin assembles his top military aides to discuss the development of the Navy and Northern Fleet.
December 06, 2019

Companies foresee lack of icebreakers, sign deals on long-term lease of two nuclear-powered vessels

Mining and metallurgy company Nornickel and oil producer Gazprom Neft strike deals with nuclear power company Rosatom over use of icebreakers.
December 06, 2019

New tech to Russia’s Arctic oil platform stirs scandal in U.S

Five individuals are arrested as U.S authorities crack down on the planned shipment of a new turbine to offshore Arctic platform Prirazlomnaya.
December 05, 2019

Equinor wanted to develop a new Arctic petro province. Now the company abandons the area

Norwegian oilmen had great hopes for the new and pristine acreage in the Barents Sea, but failed to make discoveries. Russia’s national oil company Rosneft might now seek to take over some of Equinor’s role in the area.
December 05, 2019

Russian parliament demands apology from Norway

Last year’s detention of a Russian parliament employee overshadows cooperation between the two countries’ legislative assemblies, Foreign Relations Committee leader Konstantin Kosachev underlines.
December 04, 2019

Mushers from Russia’s Arctic Brigade ride sleds along border to Finland

With weapons on the shoulders, infantry solders learn how to traverse Arctic borderlands with dogs.
December 04, 2019

A Russian icebreaker set out from Tromsø with course for ice-locked German research ship

The «Kapitan Dranitsyn» is bringing equipment, supplies and 95 researchers to the «Polarstern» as part of great international research expedition MOSAiC.
December 03, 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
@atlestaalesen