Atle Staalesen

Clean-up ongoing, but still 114 thousand rusting barrels left on Russian Arctic island

There is still a way to go before the island of Kotelny is rid of its dirty Soviet past.
June 21, 2016

Russia’s big man on the Norwegian shelf takes on Arctic licenses

Mikhail Fridman’s DEA Norge intends to invest more than $100 million in exploration this year.
June 21, 2016

In Kandalaksha, people stand up in protest against public services

Popular discontent is on the rise as the local heating supply company boosts electricity costs.
June 21, 2016

Big interest in new Arctic LNG - Novatek

«We have positive signals from Total and CNPC», says Leonid Mikhelson.
June 20, 2016

Traveling artists in the borderland

The Dark Ecology project has over the last three years explored people and nature along the Norwegian-Russian border.
June 17, 2016

$260 million for new Arctic LNG carrier

Sovcomflot’s new ship will be as powerful as a nuclear icebreaker.
June 17, 2016

Norwegians, Russians come together over Pomor grave

Churchmen and diplomats from the two countries meet at the grave of an unnamed Russian sailor deceased on Norway’s Barents Sea coast more than 100 years ago.
June 17, 2016

World’s biggest icebreaker on the water

Several hundred people assembled on the Saint Petersburg waterfront as the Baltic Yard today launched the «Arktika».
June 16, 2016

«Arctic Floating University» arrives in Novaya Zemlya

With 56 students from seven countries on board the «Professor Molchanov» embarks on Russian Arctic waters.
June 14, 2016

In progress: the Murmansk Transport Hub

Federal Minister of Transport Maksim Sokolov pays visit to Murmansk to see the development of the region’s grand infrastructure project.
June 14, 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