Atle Staalesen

Putin appoints new leader of Northern Fleet

Aleksandr Moiseev served 29 years onboard nuclear submarines. Now, he is the new commander in charge of Russia’s most powerful fleet.
May 09, 2019

Arсtic oil field could be Russia’s biggest discovery in 30 years

The Payakha area on peninsula Taymyr might hold as much as 1,2 billion tons of oil.
May 08, 2019

A Chinese-built Arctic tanker tests spring ice along remote Russian coast

Ice lies thick on the water as the world’s first icebreaking condensate tanker sails into a shallow bay by peninsula Taymyr.
May 07, 2019

Ships bring 20,000 tons of construction materials to world’s northernmost airstrip

The runway in Russia’s Arctic military base of Nagurskoye will strengthen Russia’s control over Arctic air space.
May 07, 2019

Navy is building a new major depot for Arctic operations

A military logistics center in Arkhangelsk is to handle millions of tons of goods destined troops and bases across the Arctic.
May 02, 2019

Arctic campers evacuate as polar ice cracks

In a rush, the Russian researchers picked up their gear when the giant ice floe broke into pieces.
May 02, 2019

Government approves €1 billion natural gas terminal on Kola coast

It will serve Russia’s new Arctic LNG projects and might be located next door to a nuclear submarine base.
May 01, 2019

Putin steps up talks with Beijing over Arctic shipping

The Russian president aims for more Chinese investments in Arctic LNG and growth in trans-shipments on the Northern Sea Route. Beijing appears ready for both.
April 30, 2019

Activists advanced on Arctic oil rig

Four representatives of Greenpeace jumped onboard oil rig «West Hercules» as it was being made ready for the drilling of one of the northernmost ever wells.
April 29, 2019

Defence Chief says time might have come for revival of Stalin’s Arctic Death Road

Thousands died of hunger and cold as they laid rails across the desolate areas of North Siberia. Now Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu hints he is ready to give the Transpolar Mainline project a new shot.
April 26, 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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