Atle Staalesen

A new global order is coming to the Arctic: strong voices say it must be met by an overhaul in regional governance

Do nothing and risk sleepwalking into conflict, says renown international relations analyst.
January 29, 2020

This could be Gazprom’s next field in Yamal

The Kruzenshternskoye field holds up to 2 trillion cubic meters of natural gas, the company says.
January 27, 2020

World’s biggest nickel miner has a plan for its crisis-ridden border town: here could come a hub for Arctic tourism

Nornickel might invest up to 10,5 billion rubles (€153 million) in the development of a tourism cluster in Pechenga, the municipality located along border to Norway and Finland.
January 23, 2020

Troublesome start for first Arctic LNG plant manufactured by Russia

Novatek’s fourth and last train of the Yamal LNG project is delayed and might cost the company several billions in lost revenue.
January 23, 2020

Looming threats across northern Scandinavia trigger a Norwegian rearmament

New fighter jets, surveillance aircraft, submarines, air defense systems and a significant boost in manpower is on its way to the Nordic country’s defense forces.
January 22, 2020

New Prime Minister’s first Arctic decree is about oil

Mikhail Mishustin grants company Gazprom Neft big drilling acreages in the Yamal Peninsula
January 21, 2020

Putin might head to North Pole for a face-off on the ice

Arctic Ambassador and two-times world champion Vyacheslav Fetisov intends to get the President to the top of the world for a historical ice hockey match.
January 17, 2020

American forces withdraw 3,000 soldiers from allied exercise in northern Norway

U.S. troops will take part in Cold Response, the Norway-led winter drills, but with substantially fewer soldiers than originally planned.
January 16, 2020

New Delhi confirms Indian stake in Rosneft’s new Arctic oil project

The country’s energy minister makes clear that there will be Indian participation in the major Arctic oil project to be developed in Russia’s remote Taymyr Peninsula.
January 16, 2020

Nuclear icebreaker escorts up 54%

Nuclear-powered icebreakers in 2019 escorted at total of 510 vessels on the Northern Sea Route.
January 15, 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