Atle Staalesen

«Always nice to meet dorogoy Sergey Lavrov»

Dialogue is the key issue, says Finnish Foreign Minister Timo Soini as he kickstarts his country’s major Arctic conference.
November 15, 2017

Novatek preparing for its first offshore Arctic drilling

The jackup rig is on site, and the Russian natural gas company will drill as soon as ice melts in the Gulf of Ob next year.
November 15, 2017

500 Russian Arctic marines train chemical attack

Northern Fleet soldiers put on gas masks in this week's counter-terrorism exercise.
November 13, 2017

Norway did not send Russian biomaterials to the Pentagon

A health cooperation project between Norway and Russia has come in the spotlight after President Putin hinted Russian "biological material" is collected by foreign services.
November 12, 2017

Moscow prepares «reciprocal measures» against western media

Our state media is suppressed abroad, the Russian government says. A retaliatory response is in the pipeline.
November 10, 2017

Investors bring life to biggest wind project in northern Europe

The Markbygden ETT wind farm in Swedish Lapland takes a big step towards development as GE and Green Investment Group put €800 million on the table.
November 08, 2017

More than 200 polar bears assembled on Russian Arctic beach

The record-big number of animals feasted over a dead bowhead whale on the shores of Wrangel Island.
November 07, 2017

The Murmansk wind park that collapsed

It was an innovative project which was to power several local villages with green energy. Two years after it opened, the strong Arctic winds have knocked down the turbines.
November 07, 2017

Norwegian oil company expands in northern Russia

A subsidiary of Araca Energy wins another two licenses in the Komi Republic.
November 06, 2017

Barents Cooperation. The unofficial

These people do not make it to the cocktail receptions of regional officials, neither into the meeting agenda of government ministers or priority points of Barents action programs. Civil society is in danger of being sidelined in regional cross-border cooperation.
November 06, 2017

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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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