Thomas Nilsen

European Commission proposes priority to Narvik railway

The Norwegian ice-free port is suggested a key position in EU’s Scandinavian-Mediterranean Corridor railway network.
June 07, 2018

Sanctioned oil and banking good business for Norway

The value of the Norwegian Oil Fund’s investment in Sberbank increased by more than a billion kroner last year.
June 06, 2018

Here are the super-wealthy billionaires' assets on Kola Peninsula

They are among the richest people on planet earth and holds an insane amount of private money. The Barents Observer gives you the overview of who owns what in the Murmansk region.
June 05, 2018

Electric vehicles boom gives higher dividends to Nornickel shareholders

Board of Directors suggests to pay nearly $1 billion more in dividends for 2017 than the previous year.
June 04, 2018

Warmest May ever on Arctic islands

6,0°C above normal in Longyarbyen which concluded its 90th month in a row with above normal temperatures.
June 03, 2018

Norway's Parliament says this Arctic beauty spot should be oil terminal

Majority in the Standing Committee on Energy and Environment rules in favour developing the Johan Castberg oil field in the Barents Sea.
June 03, 2018

The next station is Skellefteå

Swedish government announces 7 billion kroner for building North Bothnia Line high-speed railway further north to Skellefteå.
June 03, 2018

After weeks with separate war games, Norway and Russia again meet at sea for joint SAR exercise

Smile for military cooperation: Chief Officer at «KV Barentshav» Frode Urke (left) and Head of the Northern Fleet's exercise unit Aleksandr Ulyanov (in the middle) are happy to work together in the Barents Sea. The scenario is realistic; missing people and people in distress at sea and prevention of oil spill pollution.
June 02, 2018

Russia test-launched volley of ballistic nuclear missiles (video)

Never before have four Bulava missiles been launched from a single Borei-class submarine at the same time.
May 22, 2018

TASS: Russia drops plan to redesign Borei sub, will build six more of existing

The navy leg of Russia’s nuclear triad will by 2027 consist of three Borei and 11 Borei-A classes ballistic missile submarines.
May 22, 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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