Atle Staalesen

Barents Observer Editor Thomas Nilsen’s case against FSB up in Moscow City Court

Eleven months after he was given an entry ban to Russia, Nilsen’s case against the security service ends up on the table of a judge in the Russian capital.
October 18, 2017

The Norwegian Arctic region that soon ceases to exist takes over Barents chair

The merger with neighbouring Troms will not affect our work with the Barents Cooperation, says head of the Finnmark County Ragnhild Vassvik.
October 18, 2017

Ukrainian filmmaker faces years behind bars in Russian Arctic camp

Oleg Sentsov made his films on the sunny lands of Crimea. This month, he was sent to a strict regime prison in Labytnangi in the Russian far north.
October 17, 2017

Rosneft discovers more than 80 million tons of oil in new offshore Arctic well

The oil in the Tsentralno-Olginskaya-1 field is of high quality, light and low in sulphur, the company says.
October 16, 2017

More tourists make it to Russia’s remotest Arctic coast

Franz Josef Land has a 20 percent increase in the number of visitors.
October 13, 2017

Locomotives on world’s northernmost railway will run on LNG

The trains operating the line across the Yamal Peninsula will be fuelled by liquified natural gas.
October 13, 2017

End comes to 100 years of Norwegian coal mining at Svalbard

Amid a boost in the geopolitical and strategic importance of the Arctic archipelago, the Norwegian government makes clear that the once so powerful industry must end.
October 12, 2017

Chinese oilmen returning home after drilling in Russian Arctic waters

Semisubmersible rig «Nanhai VIII» completes its operations in the Kara Sea and heads back to Chinese home port.
October 11, 2017

Murmansk deputy governor gets the boot

As pressure against Murmansk leader Marina Kovtun increases, Deputy Governor Igor Babenko is dismissed from the regional government.
October 11, 2017

Ready for first shipments of Yamal LNG to market

The first part of the Arctic gas plant will be ready in November and two shipments are planned the same month.
October 11, 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
@atlestaalesen