Atle Staalesen

UPDATED: Locals say evacuation of nuclear testing area Nyonoksa is cancelled

Inhabitants in the village located near Arkhangelsk had previously been told to leave by train on Wednesday morning.
August 13, 2019

Russian fighter jets, strategic bombers move along Norwegian coast

As the Northern Fleet prepares a major naval exercise in the Norwegian Sea, a powerful group of Russian airplanes flew into the area.
August 10, 2019

Kremlin’s prophesy for the Northern Sea Route is keeping Moscow officials busy

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.
August 08, 2019

Big blow to Arctic environment as Russian coal company advances into protected tundra

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.
August 06, 2019

Weapons arrive to Russia’s new Arctic garrison

Ships deliver 175 units of weaponry to the new air defense base in Tiksi.
August 05, 2019

Ships to sail down great Siberian river, deliver grain to Japan via Arctic route

It could open a new window to Asia, a regional governor in Siberia argues.
July 31, 2019

First battalion of new missile system now operational in Northern Fleet

The medium-range surface-to-air Pantsir-S is to protect the air space over Navy town Severomorsk.
July 31, 2019

Russia’s biggest oil company announces more offshore Arctic drilling

Five years after it found one of the largest oil fields in Arctic waters, Rosneft makes clear that more drilling in the Kara Sea is coming up.
July 30, 2019

Night Wolves bikers erect large Serbian Orthodox cross in Northern Fleet headquarters Severomorsk

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.
July 29, 2019

«Submariners could have been saved»

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.
July 25, 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