Atle Staalesen

More oil spills from Lukoil's pipes in Komi

Hectic clean-up on a site near Usinsk as another spill is about to distort vulnerable local lands.
October 03, 2016

Arctic Brigade advances on Franz Josef Land

Russia’s Arctic elite forces launch their first ever major exercise in the remote archipelago.
October 03, 2016

On border to Russia, a bonfire in protest against Norwegian defense cuts

«Peace does not come by itself», says Nina Karin Skogan as she and a group of companions light up a huge fire just few hundred meters from the Russian border.
October 01, 2016

No fortune for Statoil in Russian wells

The Norwegian company might have spent $300 million on its two joint wells with Rosneft in the Sea of Okhotsk. They were both dry, reports say.
September 30, 2016

Activist Ildar Dadin sent to Karelian penal colony

He will spend up to two years in the labor camp of Segezha, the place where Mikhail Khodorkovsky was locked up.
September 30, 2016

Rosatom takes on new role in Gulf of Ob

The nuclear power company builds a conventional icebreaker, to serve the oil and gas companies operating in Yamal.
September 30, 2016

Construction of 41 new wind generators starts in Lehtirova

The park located in northern Swedish region of Norrbotten will produce about 500 GWh per year.
September 30, 2016

Oslo stops Russian advance on Norwegian shelf - Gazprom

We hope this will not become a political issue, a leading representative of the company says.
September 29, 2016

Ships shuttle to Pevek with materials for floating nuclear power project

Local infrastructure in the remote Arctic outpost must be ready for the world's first floating NPP by late 2017.
September 29, 2016

Norilsk Nickel expands mining along border to Norway

Two new mines to be opened over next three years in Pechenga, the company’s hotbed in the Kola Peninsula.
September 29, 2016

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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