Atle Staalesen

Coronavirus spikes in Arkhangelsk

The North Russian region has one of the quickest growing number of new cases in the country.
June 03, 2020

Leonid Mikhelson: En route towards 70 million tons of LNG from Arctic fields

Despite declining prices and uncertain market outlooks, the leader of Novatek is confident that his company in ten years will deliver up to 70 million tons of liquified natural gas from its Arctic projects.
June 02, 2020

Big delay, cost overrun for North Pole station

Russia's icebreaking research station was to be ready to drift across Arctic waters already in 2020.
June 01, 2020

FSB General sees growing threat from foreign Arctic researchers and indigenous peoples activists

Their objective is to challenge the current legal and territorial status of the region and undermine Russia's development of natural resources, leader of FSB's Border Guard Service Vladimir Kulishov argues.
May 28, 2020

Tanker crosses Russian Arctic route without icebreaker assistance

Commercial shipping on the Northern Sea Route starts earlier than ever before. By late May, a carrier had set out on the icy route without icebreaker escort.
May 27, 2020

Big increase in coronavirus cases in closed military naval town Severodvinsk

A total of 169 new cases were registered in Arkhangelsk region over the last 24 hours, more than 150 of them in the strategically important city of Severodvinsk.
May 25, 2020

Red alert for northern Siberia as heat shocks threaten life on tundra

New temperature maps for the endless stretches of Russian Arctic lands bear witness of unprecedented warming.
May 25, 2020

A new offshore Arctic project is underway in icy Gulf of Ob

As deep crisis runs through the Russian oil and gas industry, shipyard Sevmash says it is preparing to start construction of a platform for the Kamenno-Mysskoye field.
May 22, 2020

New north Russian region could get territory as big as Scandinavia

A proposed merger of regions in northern Russia spurs controversy in the small and oil-rich Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Some want also the Komi Republic to be part of the new super-size region.
May 21, 2020

Oslo ratifies landmark agreement on protection of Arctic fish stocks, ecosystems

The Norwegian Parliament approves the international agreement on unregulated fishing in the central Arctic Ocean.
May 20, 2020

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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