Atle Staalesen

From Severomorsk to Syria

Aircraft carrier «Admiral Kuznetsov» is heading to the east Mediterranean for a three-month mission.
September 22, 2016

Kolguyev oil changes hands

Urals Energy gets full control over the oil field on the Russian Arctic island.
September 22, 2016

Victory for liberal Karelia

Nowhere else in the country did the liberal opposition get as many votes as in the Republic of Karelia.
September 21, 2016

Pumps starting at Russia’s northernmost oil field

«Thousands of specialists, advanced technology and large-scale investments has made this possible», President Vladimir Putin says as he officially launches production at East Messoyakha, the northernmost field on the Russian mainland.
September 21, 2016

Overwhelming control over the Murmansk regional parliament

The United Russia gets 25 of the 32 seats in the Murmansk regional Duma.
September 20, 2016

Rescue comes to researchers besieged by polar bears

The five Russian researchers where trapped for days in their small cabin at the remote Arctic island of Troynoy. The warm weather in the area is to blame, they say.
September 20, 2016

How did the Russian Arctic vote?

Voter turnout and support for the United Russia is biggest in the Yamal-Nenets region.
September 20, 2016

Shooting cruise missiles from Arctic archipelago

The new military complex at the island of Kotelny shows what it is made of.
September 20, 2016

Happy Birthday, Arctic Council!

«Today, we celebrate twenty years of Arctic cooperation and look forward to a long term future of peace and stability in the region», six foreign ministers write in a joint statement.
September 19, 2016

This is the Head of Komi

Sergey Gaplikov comfortably secures his election as regional leader in the north Russian region.
September 19, 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
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