Atle Staalesen

Barents Observer Editor Thomas Nilsen is declared unwanted in Russia by FSB

The Federal Security Service says he poses a threat to Russian national security and bars him entry to the country for the next five years.
March 09, 2017

Franz Josef Land might get Arctic museum

The outdoor exhibit will show the history of Russian Arctic exploration, initiators told Minister Sergey Donskoy during a visit on site.
March 08, 2017

World’s first floating nuclear power plant should not be fueled with uranium while in St. Petersburg, environmentalists say

Political party Yabloko demands that the soon-to-be operation is conducted in safe distance from the city center.
March 08, 2017

Northern Fleet greets «weak sex» on Women’s Day

Up to five percent of our military personnel are women and there are 300 representatives of the «weak sex» among our officers, the powerful naval fleet says.
March 08, 2017

Airport took newspaper to court

And lost. Newspaper Vesti Karelia will not have to remove critical stories about the Petrozavodsk infrastructure object.
March 06, 2017

World’s biggest transport plane lands in Sabetta

The An-124 «Ruslan» checks in at Russia’s new Arctic airport with components for the Yamal LNG project.
March 06, 2017

Ministry wants 210 billion rubles for Arctic development

Russia's new Arctic program has been coordinated with all government bodies, except the Ministry of Finance, the program developers say.
March 03, 2017

Moscow boasts potential, but Arctic transit shipments between Europe-Asia remain poor

Only 19 ships with 214,500 tons of cargo last year transited the Northern Sea Route.
March 02, 2017

Sweden re-introduces conscription

We need to enhance our military capacities following the changing security policy situation in the region, says Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist.
March 02, 2017

Troubled waters for Russia’s nuclear icebreaker program

The building of nuclear-powered icebreakers is significantly behind schedule. A key reason is the ruling east-west sanction regimes.
March 01, 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