How much goods can be shipped along Russia’s Arctic route between Europe and Asia? The Ministry of Transport believes shipments can grow as much as 35 million tons in only one year.
Company Vostok Coal has been been fined several hundred million rubles for illegal mining in the Taymyr Peninsula, but still gets government’s approval for expansion into a local national park.
Together with Head Commander Aleksandr Moiseev and leading church bishops, Russia’s notorious motor cycle club sanctified the 7 meter high cross that it to symbolize Slavic brotherhood.
The explosion that killed 14 of Russia’s most experienced submarine sailors took place as special purpose sub «Losharik» (AS-31) was about to connect with its mother ship.
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.