Atle Staalesen

«Russian Svalbard protest totally without merit»

It plays into Moscow’s recent propaganda hike against Norway, says analyst Per Arne Totland.
April 21, 2017

Port development will make Luleå big in north Scandinavian shipping

More than €310 million of investments will make the port capable of handling up to four times bigger ships and capture a share of the extensive regional shipments of ore.
April 21, 2017

Russian Armed Forces send more men to North Pole

A group of soldiers from the country’s new military Expedition Center makes it through bad weather to the top of the world.
April 20, 2017

«FSB’s infiltration of political party Parnas aimed at Norway»

Leader of the regional party office in Murmansk, Andrey Kapitonov, was recruited by Russian agents as part of a plot involving liberal Parnas and the Norwegian secret police. Then it all backfired on the Russian security service.
April 20, 2017

Gazprom Neft invites Indian ONGC Videsh to its offshore Arctic projects

A memorandum signed by the companies includes an ambition to take joint activities in Arctic waters.
April 19, 2017

News agency under attack by regional government

The recent lawsuit by the Murmansk chief of police is only the last of many attempts to influence our editorial policy, regional news agency Flashnord says.
April 19, 2017

Tourism outdoes coal in Svalbard settlement

The proud mining history of Barentsburg comes closer to an end as industrial sites and facilities are taken over by quickly expanding tourism.
April 18, 2017

Norway positive to Finland’s Arctic railway plan

«If Finnish state authorities decide to initiate a feasibility study of a railway connection between Finland and Kirkenes, then the Norwegian side is positive».
April 12, 2017

4 million tons of Russian offshore Arctic oil

The Prirazlomnaya platform marks 4 million tons of tapped oil as it prepares for a 3-month production halt.
April 11, 2017

Norway, Finland talk Arctic with China

Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg is completing her 4-day visit to China and Chinese President Xi Jinping just left Finland. The Arctic was on the agenda both places.
April 10, 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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