Thomas Nilsen

EU gives financial push to battery factory in northern Sweden

February 13, 2018

Record high production in Kirovsk

The world needs more food and PhosAgro delivers a 25-years peak of phosphate rock from the Khibiny mountains.
February 13, 2018

Crazy awesome in Lapland, but not yet official Olympic sport

The fastest and most insane sport on skates, see video from this weekend’s downhill skaters race in Saariselkä.
February 12, 2018

Reactors removed from «Sibir»

24 years after being shut down, the still highly radioactive reactors are now lifted out of the icebreaker.
February 07, 2018

African migrants jailed for trying to reach Norway

Three young men and two women cut through Russia’s barbed wire fence, but were detained by FSB before reaching Norway.
February 07, 2018

Russians drink less beer, Baltika's volumes drop

Carlsberg’s beer sales in Russia dropped 14% in 2017.
February 07, 2018

Murmansk and Arkhangelsk fail to attract foreign cruise vessels

72-hours visa-freedom and new multi-million cruise port are of little help. Murmansk gets only half the number of port calls this season compared with 2015.
February 07, 2018

Stoltenberg: New START Treaty is fulfilled

Despite recent sabre-rattling, both the United States and Russia have met the limits set for the nuclear arsenal under the New START Treaty, which enters force today.
February 05, 2018

Hurtigruten to sail Russian Arctic

Starting in Norway, the voyages to Franz Josef Land have to make port calls in Murmansk both in and out of Russian waters.
February 05, 2018

Whoa, they are talking again

First meeting between Russian and Norwegian defense ministries since 2013.
February 04, 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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