Atle Staalesen

Murmansk Governor’s new team is on its way from Moscow

New deputy governor in the Russian Arctic region is Oksana Demchenko, the close aide of newly appointed Governor Andrey Chibis from his time as government official in Moscow.
March 29, 2019

Police raids LGBT community in Arkhangelsk

Officers in uniform broke into the Rakurs center in the north Russian city in what appears as a strike against the small local LGBT community.
March 29, 2019

Headed towards Norwegian border, were stopped by Russian border guards

Two individuals from the Republic of Chad have been sentenced to 9 months in jail for their attempt to illegally make it from Murmansk to Norway.
March 28, 2019

The warmest ever winter on the Northern Sea Route

Parts of the region had an average temperature almost 4 degrees Celsius above normal.
March 28, 2019

Nuclear-powered container ship unloads 29,000 tons of cargo on frozen Arctic shore

It is put directly of the ice of the Ob Bay near the spot for Novatek’s new LNG terminal.
March 27, 2019

Norwegian trawler pulled in by Russian Coast Guard

The «Arctic Swan» was fishing off the coast of the Kola Peninsula when it was ordered to proceed to Murmansk.
March 27, 2019

Researchers move into Arctic waters, ready to drift with the ice

It is part of Russia’s preparations for the building of an Arctic research platform to be permanently based in the ice.
March 26, 2019

«Our children will be real patriots»

Arkhangelsk Governor Igor Orlov chairs this week’s meeting in the regional Council on patriotic education.
March 23, 2019

On Nenets tundra starts building of Gazprom’s new giant field

A convoy of 30 trucks, bulldozers and excavators is on its way to the development site of the Kharasavey natural gas field. About 20 percent of the field resources are located offshore in the Kara Sea.
March 21, 2019

Good-bye Marina Kovtun, hello new Murmansk Governor Andrey Chibis

After seven years as leader of Russia’s most powerful Arctic region, Marina Kovtun is replaced by a 40-year old top official from Moscow.
March 21, 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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