Atle Staalesen

Big growth for Russian Arctic oil

Production last year increased by more than 17 percent in the country’s three main Arctic oil regions.
February 06, 2017

Finland marks Sámi National Day with new emoji

The Sámi flag is one of several emojis with Arctic motives presented today by the Finnish Foreign Ministry.
February 06, 2017

Busy building of bases

About 1,000 workers are now building more than 100 military objects in five Russian Arctic archipelagos.
February 03, 2017

This was Russia’s Arctic weather in 2016

«These kind of temperatures have never before been registered in the region», the country’s Hydrometeorological Center says.
February 03, 2017

Potanin tells Putin he will make nickel industry greater, cleaner

One of the biggest industrialists - and polluters - in the Russian Arctic reiterates his intention modernize and get clean.
February 02, 2017

The new mid-winter Arctic shipping: tanker makes it through Bering Strait to pick up oil in Yamal

On its maiden trip, the «Shturman Ovtsyn» sails across the Russian Arctic to Novy Port oil terminal in the Gulf of Ob. On the darkest and harshest time of year.
February 01, 2017

Solitary protest on streets of Petrozavodsk

Activists in Karelia demand the release of Yury Dmitriev, the imprisoned regional leader of human rights organization Memorial.
January 31, 2017

Russian Arctic majors meet in court

Oil company Gazprom Neft demands 660 million rubles from shipyard Sevmash.
January 31, 2017

This is the FSB’s new Arctic vessel

It can sail autonomously in Arctic waters for up to two months and break through 80 cm thick ice.
January 30, 2017

5 billion for development of Tiksi infrastructure

Shipping between the Lena River and to Arctic Ocean is to get a boost.
January 30, 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