Atle Staalesen

Ready for cross-border seismic shooting in Barents Sea

More than two years overdue, Norway and Russia sign the agreement that will allow them to map oil and gas resources in joint borderlands.
October 25, 2018

Russian legislators encroach on news aggregators

Additional limitations are in the pipe for Yandex and other Russian aggregators of up-to-date news coverage.
October 25, 2018

Italian oilmen might halt Arctic cooperation with Rosneft

There is little progress in the two companies’ joint projects in the Barents Sea.
October 24, 2018

As NATO gets ready for Trident Juncture, two Russian corvettes set course for North Atlantic

The vessels are part of Russia’s Baltic Fleet and have helicopters and marine infantry units on board.
October 23, 2018

Oil company ships out first 20 million tons through Arctic waters, says much more is in the pipeline

The infrastructure developed in the region will enable us to boost exports, Gazprom Neft says.
October 22, 2018

Finland expects increase in traffic from northern Russia, builds new border-crossing point

More than €11 million will be invested in brand new infrastructure facilities at the northernmost checkpoint between the countries.
October 22, 2018

Mikhail Bochkarev is released, Norwegian Security Police might drop espionage charges

The Russian state official who has been in Norwegian jail for almost a month is going home to Moscow.
October 19, 2018

The building of huge dump site for Moscow trash stirs uproar in Russian north

Few understood what was in the making when a big number of heavy construction machines rolled into the deep forest south in Arkhangelsk region.
October 19, 2018

Floating storage for Arctic LNG

The projected terminal for liquified natural gas in Murmansk will be floating on the water.
October 19, 2018

Murmansk slashes budget by 5%

The 2019 budget for the Russian Arctic region gives little space for other than survival.
October 18, 2018

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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