Atle Staalesen

"I will continue to fight, and no court verdict can stop me"

Violetta Grudina and her organization in Murmansk is now officially declared "extremist" after Moscow judges in a show case ruled against Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation.
June 10, 2021

World's northernmost railway to carry 52 million tons of petro products

Gazprom has decided to send liquified hydrocarbons from its biggest fields in Yamal to the markets by rail.
June 08, 2021

Arctic miners get financing for one of world's biggest palladium projects

The Russian Platinum has signed a memorandum of understanding with financial group VTB and state development corporation VEB over the development of the Chernogorskoye field in the far northern peninsula of Taymyr.
June 08, 2021

Under mounting pressure from renewables, Russia's top oilman says new Arctic giga-project will produce "green barrels"

Addressing an audience of international oil company leaders, Igor Sechin warns against a rapid shift to renewables, and makes clear that the world needs his Vostok Oil.
June 07, 2021

New Yamal LNG plant is Made in Russia. It comes more than year after schedule

Novatek is reported to have launched production at its 4th and final train of the Yamal LNG.
June 02, 2021

As iron ore prices surge, Severstal starts development of new mine in Kola Peninsula

The steelmaker will invest more than 6 billion rubles in the Pechegubskoe field.
June 01, 2021

Natural gas from Barents Sea could find a future in ammonia

A Norwegian company intends to build a plant for large-scale blue ammonia production on the Barents Sea coast.
June 01, 2021

Norwegian oilmen are ready to drill along border to Russia

Warnings from climate experts notwithstanding, oil and gas exploration continues in the Barents Sea. Aker BP now prepares to drill at the Stangnestind just few kilometers from Norway's border to Russia.
May 30, 2021

Megafon halts trans-Arctic cable project Arctic Connect

The Russian telecommunications company says it will review plans to lay a 10,000 km long fiber-optic cable from Kirkenes, Norway, to Japan.
May 28, 2021

Yevgeny's silent protest against oil spills was repressed by police

The environmentalist stood alone with a placard in the central square of Arkhangelsk when policemen approached and fined him for violation of coronavirus regulations.
May 27, 2021

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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