Atle Staalesen

First Arctic summer for Chinese oilmen

COSL completes its seismic mapping of license areas in Russian Arctic waters.
September 05, 2016

New weapons transportation ship sets course towards Arctic bases

Special-purpose vessel «Akademik Kovalyov» is part of the Northern Fleet flotilla, which now is on its way to Russia’s new Arctic bases.
September 01, 2016

Liberals not allowed to run in Petrozavodsk, court rules

This has been orchestrated by regional Governor Khudilainen, Yabloko leader Galina Shirshina says.
August 31, 2016

Putin calls for fair play in Arctic

Lets not play geopolitical games in this area, the Russian president says.
August 31, 2016

Arctic platform evacuated

Personnel was brought to land as ENI tonight lost all power to its Goliat platform in the Barents Sea.
August 27, 2016

Arctic national park gets extension, becomes Russia’s biggest

The Franz Josef Land is included in the Arctic National Park. It will help protect vulnerable Arctic ecosystems, Minister Sergey Donskoy says.
August 26, 2016

Russia revives east Arctic infantry division

It will be based in Chukotka and train to withstand an attack from Alaska.
August 26, 2016

«Cleanup of Bely Island completed»

Tons of scrap metal and waste material from the Soviet past is ready to be shipped to the mainland.
August 26, 2016

Newspaper editor criticized local legislator, got fired

Nadezhda Gongeleva takes her case to court after she was dismissed from Karelian newspaper Prizyv.
August 25, 2016

Russian military on the move

The Northern Fleet is put at highest alert as Russia announces another snap rehearsal.
August 25, 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