Thomas Nilsen

Pilots warned of jamming in Finnmark

«Reasons to believe it could be related to military exercise activities outside Norway’s broders,» says the Civil Aviation Authority to the Barents Observer.
November 02, 2018

€4,5 million for Murmansk-Ivalo road upgrade

A three-year road repair and safety upgrade is getting underway with funding from EU’s Kolarctic program.
November 01, 2018

Moomin snowcastle to be erected in Rovaniemi

Finland’s most know comic book characters get a huge snowcastle ready before Christmas in Santa Claus Village on the Arctic Circle.
October 31, 2018

Tu-160 strategic bombers on mission along coast of Norway

The two Russian bombers were flying in international airspace simultaneously as NATO’s large Trident Juncture exercise takes place.
October 31, 2018

Russia announces rocket shootings just outside Finnmark in final days of NATO’s Trident Juncture

The area of rocket test firings is only about 40 kilometers north of Gamvik and Berlevåg on Norway’s Barents Sea coast.
October 31, 2018

Turkish Airlines will bring Asian tourists to Rovaniemi via new global hub

Flights are scheduled from Istanbul three times a week starting from next winter season.
October 30, 2018

Lavrov questions fate of the New START Treaty

As the U.S. intends to exit the INF treaty, Russia’s Foreign Minister says the future of the treaty regulating strategic nuclear weapons in unclear.
October 29, 2018

Murmansk eyes gasification, could finally get rid of smelly pollution from mazut boilers

Utilization of gas instead of heavy, low quality fuel oil is good for health, environment and the regional budget.
October 26, 2018

Saudi Aramco wants to buy 30% of Novatek’s Arctic LNG-2

Russia’s energy minister welcomes Saudi Arabia’s state energy company as key commercial partner to the second gas plant on the Yamal Peninsula.
October 26, 2018

Hurtigruten orders third ice-strengthened hybrid-battery ship

Hurtigruten continues to build cruise vessels carrying twice as many passengers as most other new-buildings in the Arctic expedition cruise business.
October 25, 2018

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Thomas Nilsen is editor of the Independent Barents Observer with its news desk located in Kirkenes, northern Norway. He has a long experience in media cooperation across the borders in the high north of Europe, both as radio- and newspaper reporter all the way back to the days before the breakup of the Soviet Union. 

Nilsen has been editor of Barents Observer since 2009.

He was Deputy Head of the Norwegian Barents Secretariat from 2004-2009. Until 2003, he worked 12 years for the Bellona Foundation’s Russian study group, focusing on nuclear safety issues and general environmental challenges in northern areas and the Arctic. 

Thomas has been traveling extensively across northern Scandinavia and Arctic Russia since the late 80’s working for different media and organizations. He is also a guide at sea and in remote locations in the Russian north for various groups and regularly lectures on security issues, environmental and socio-economic development.

Thomas Nilsen studied at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

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