Atle Staalesen

Potanin mulls closure of smelter in Nikel

The polluting plant on the border to Norway and Finland could be closed as part of a $14 billion development plan announced by Norilsk Nikel.
January 03, 2017

New fighter jets for Northern Fleet

Two Su-30SMs has landed in the Severomorsk airport.
January 03, 2017

First Russian vessel gets Polar Ship Certificate

Sovcomflot’s brand new oil tanker «Shturman Albanov» gets the Arctic shipping license required by the Polar Code.
January 03, 2017

Russia wants more control over Arctic airspace

We are engaged in a serious effort to enhance control over the area, leader of the country’s Radio-Radar troops says.
January 02, 2017

Offshore Arctic platform Prirazlomnaya to close down 3 months

But the installation will still increase production in 2017, Gazprom Neft leader Aleksandr Dyukov says.
January 02, 2017

Flying in to meet Santa

Almost 1,000 planes packed with tourists eager to get a touch of white Christmas have landed in Lapland airports this December.
December 22, 2016

New resources on Russia’s Arctic map

Russian state geological exploration company Rosgeologia wins a string of tenders on seismic mapping in Arctic waters. First in the line is the Fersmanovsky area in the Barents Sea.
December 22, 2016

Dmitry Filippov is the new Mayor of Murmansk

The 41 year old businessman takes over the reigns in the biggest city north of the Arctic Circle.
December 21, 2016

Lamps on nuclear icebreaker caught fire

The blaze on board the «Yamal» was extinguished after only few minutes, shipowner Rosatomflot says.
December 21, 2016

China starts construction of new icebreaker

The research vessel will more than double the country’s icebreaking capacity in polar areas.
December 21, 2016

Pages

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