Atle Staalesen

OMV’s new appraisal well confirms potential in Arctic field

The Austrian oil company believes the Wisting license could hold up to 80 million standard cubic meters of recoverable oil equivalents.
September 18, 2017

Børge Brende resigns as foreign minister

Leader of Norway’s Foreign Ministry announces that he leaves office less than a week after his Conservative Party won re-election, and heads for the top post in the World Economic Forum.
September 15, 2017

Powerful Navy flotilla sets out from Kola Bay as Russia starts Zapad-2017

With battle cruiser «Pyotr Veliky» in the lead, a big group of Northern Fleet ships unfold a grand exercise near the border to Norway.
September 15, 2017

The Nansen Legacy vital for future of Barents Sea, say researchers

A €85 million Norwegian research project is to help explore the northernmost parts of the Barents Sea. «We have big need for more knowledge about these areas», the University of Tromsø says.
September 14, 2017

Murmansk FSB warns school kids: do not attend meeting with Aleksey Navalny

The FSB and police have a clear message to local youth as presidential hopeful Navalny prepares for his visit to the Arctic city.
September 14, 2017

On northernmost tip of Eurasian mainland, a showoff of Northern Fleet capacity

Navy vessels put ashore a group of Arctic soldiers at Cape Chelyuskin, 77° North.
September 14, 2017

Finnish company comes to Murmansk, sets up Arctic oil spill response unit with Rosneft

The Lamor company establishes a joint venture with the Russian oil company in Roslyakov, the formerly closed military town outside Murmansk.
September 13, 2017

The elections that shook northern Norway

A wave of protest votes moves over the northern parts of the country and hits the Labour Party with full force. It is the populist parties which are election winners in the three northernmost Norwegian counties.
September 12, 2017

Amid shrinking turnout, establishment wins elections in Russian North

It is a safe win for United Russia, but it is based on an increasingly slim share of the electorate.
September 11, 2017

Growing police pressure against Navalny’s office in Murmansk

Office leader Violetta Grudina hints local law enforcement authorities might try to get her hooked for «extremism».
September 08, 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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