Atle Staalesen

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

Rosneft wants to know more about Norwegian shelf

The Russian oil company is creating an integrated geological model of the Norwegian-Russian maritime borderlands.
January 30, 2017

World’s first ice-breaking LNG tanker starts sea trials

The «Christophe de Margerie» will deliver natural gas from the Yamal LNG project.
January 27, 2017

Iron ore from northern Sweden to U.S.-Mexican project

LKAB Minerals inks deal on delivery of several hundred thousand tons of iron ore product MagnaDense for new trans-American gas pipeline.
January 27, 2017

Fishy business on Murmansk waterfront

The once so proud and powerful fish port in Murmansk remains haunted by trouble.
January 27, 2017

Norway takes tough line against EU in Svalbard waters

«The next ship we see in the area will be arrested», Minister of Fisheries Per Sandberg says.
January 25, 2017

Ministries cry halt to building of new Arctic exploration vessels

Russia’s state geological exploration company wants to spend 15 billion rubles of tax money on the construction of seismic ships for 3D Arctic mapping. That is not a good idea, two federal ministries say.
January 24, 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