Atle Staalesen

Youth Army takes Russia with a storm

The military-patriotic movement Yunarmiya now totals more than 140,000 youngsters. Many of them are from the Russian North.
August 10, 2017

Novatek sheds light on its next major Arctic gas project

The Arctic LNG-2 will be bigger, cheaper and based on new technology put together by engineers in Murmansk.
August 09, 2017

Northern Fleet announces big-scale exercise

It will include about 50 vessels and is held as a preparatory phase to the upcoming «Zapad-2017» drills.
August 09, 2017

More than 800,000 reindeer vaccinated against anthrax

In the course of summer, the whole reindeer population of the Nenets tundra will be made immune against the lethal bacteria infection.
August 08, 2017

NASA comes to Svalbard with new Arctic satellite laser

The American space research agency joins efforts with the Norwegian Mapping Authority in developing a new earth observation station in the Norwegian Arctic.
August 08, 2017

Plenty of gas in Gazprom’s new Arctic field, says minister

Drilling results from the Kruzenshternskoye field in Yamal are very prospective, natural resource Minister Sergey Donskoy reveals in an interview.
August 07, 2017

Handed out Navalny’s newspapers, were detained by Murmansk police

Among the seven people hooked in by law enforcement officers were regional campaign leader Violetta Grudina.
August 07, 2017

Norway’s rightwing Progress Party wavers over Russia sanctions

As parliament elections draw closer, several leading representatives of government junior partner Progress Party say they want an end to the sanctions against Russia. Among them is Bengt Rune Strifeldt, the party’s top candidate from Finnmark, the northern region bordering on the Russian neighbour.
August 07, 2017

Rescue mission for Baldwin’s historical refuge on Franz Josef Land

The more than 100 year old remains of the U.S. expedition are about to be washed into the Arctic ocean.
August 04, 2017

Russian, British military open 2WW memorial near border to Norway

The Soviet and British soldiers who lost their lives on the Fisheman’s (Rybachi) Peninsula were honored by two countries’ military representatives.
August 04, 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