Atle Staalesen

Arctic planners want new transport aircraft that can land on ice

It must be able to carry up to 10 tons of goods and have a flight range of 4000 km, the Russian developers of the Northern Sea Route underline.
January 03, 2020

Arctic tour for Orthodox Navy icon ahead of installment in new grand military cathedral

The church icon that serves as patron for Russia’s Navy sailors is visiting the Northern Fleet base towns in the Kola Peninsula.
January 03, 2020

Moscow adopts 15-year grand plan for Northern Sea Route

By year 2035, the Russian government intends to build at least 40 Arctic vessels, upgrade 4 regional airports, construct railways and seaports and facilitate a massive exploitation of Arctic natural resources.
December 31, 2019

Northern Fleet’s new multipurpose Arctic tanker starts service in Barents Sea

The «Akademik Pashin» can simultaneously provide three vessels with fuels and other goods while sailing at open sea.
December 30, 2019

Rosatom eyes shipments of grain on Northern Sea Route

Up to 1 million tons could be shipped annually to the seaport of Sabetta and from there exported to Southeast Asian countries, the state company believes.
December 30, 2019

News journal published in indigenous language, was punished by media inspectors

Russian media watchdog Roskomnadzor says online journal 7x7-journal broke the law when it published a series of blog posts in the local Komi language, as well as two translations in English.
December 30, 2019

«Nikel has a serious future»

As a new year draws near, regional governor Andrey Chibis comes to the Arctic border town that is threatened by social and economic crisis.
December 26, 2019

One of Aleksey Navalny’s anti-corruption fighters is forcefully sent to military service in Novaya Zemlya

It is a carefully planned isolation of our colleague Ruslan Shaveddinov and it is set up by Putin himself, says the opposition leader.
December 25, 2019

Equinor gets ready to drill new Arctic well

The company intends to add resources to its Johan Castberg project.
December 23, 2019

Murmansk hopes for investment hike as it secures status as free economic zone

The far northern city says tax benefits are necessary for it to become the «Capital of the Arctic.»
December 20, 2019

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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
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