Atle Staalesen

Murmansk gets Russia’s biggest dry dock

It will replace the floating dry dock that last year sunk into the Arctic waters of the Kola Bay.
May 28, 2019

Turks and Chinese, but few locals, in new Russian Arctic plant

Legislators in Murmansk send a clear message to natural gas company Novatek; More locals must be involved in the building of the LNG plant in Belokamenka.
May 27, 2019

Novatek announces 3rd LNG project in Arctic

The Ob LNG will be developed exclusively with Russian technology.
May 23, 2019

Big decline in Arctic population, but military towns have an upswing

The people of Murmansk is shrinking to a historical low. Only the Northern Fleet garrisons see new people moving in.
May 23, 2019

Russia says its radio-electronic shield now covers the Arctic

New systems for radio-electronic warfare installed along the country’s Arctic coast are able to jam foreign ships and aircrafts several thousand kilometers away.
May 21, 2019

Chinese rig makes second large discovery in Russian Arctic waters

The «Nan Hai Ba Hao» has found more than a trillion cubic meters of natural gas in the Kara Sea. The rig will be back in the area this summer.
May 20, 2019

With radical Arctic change comes spawning cod in new northern waters

Researchers have never before seen spawning cod in the area of Jan Mayen.
May 16, 2019

Sympathetic beluga whale might face deportation to Russia

The clever animal that for the past two weeks have thrilled locals along the Arctic coast of Norway should be transferred to a «suitable facility», fishery experts say.
May 15, 2019

COSCO: several trans-Arctic shipments coming up this year

The Chinese shipping company confirms readiness to increase transit shipments on the Northern Sea Route.
May 14, 2019

Booming Arctic shipping, but this brand new icebreaking tanker chooses a southern route

The maiden voyage of top ice-class LNG tanker «Nikolay Yevgenov» goes through the Suez Canal and not the Northern Sea Route. Only few vessels in 2018 chose the Arctic shortcut between Asia and Europe.
May 13, 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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