Thomas Nilsen

Europe's northernmost cross-border highway to get charger network for electric cars

Bellona teams up with regional authorities to see how and where charger should come between Murmansk and the border to Norway.
November 13, 2017

Pirita Näkkäläjärvi named Sámi of the Year

"There is systematic spreading of disinformation about the Sámi that threaten our freedom of speech", says the former editor of YLE Sápmi.
November 12, 2017

Siberian Corridor remains closed for Norwegian Air

Plans for direct routes from Asia to Arctic Norway will be put on halt.
November 10, 2017

Pioner Arctic cruise-explorer signs deal for new expedition vessel

Lindblad Expeditions' new cruise vessel, to be built in Norway, gets very high ice class for access deep into polar regions.
November 08, 2017

South Korea and Russia plan Murmansk hub

Container shipping between Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Murmansk on agenda in Seoul.
November 07, 2017

Reindeer warning app prevents road accidents

Finland launches mobile app making your drive through Lapland much safer.
November 07, 2017

Share your Lenin

100 years after Russian revolution, busts, monuments and symbols with Vladimir Lenin are still spread across the Barents Region.
November 06, 2017

Professor says Goliat will likely never become profitable

The scandal-hit Barents Sea development could be the first oil field in Norway to cost the country money.
November 06, 2017

First upgraded Borei-class submarine ready for launch

50 years after the Northern Fleet got its first ballistic missile submarine, Sevmash yard in Severodvinsk floats out its latest pride. «Knyaz Vladimir» will be Russia’s most advanced ballistic missile submarine.
November 06, 2017

Doubts remain about Norway's ability to earn money from Arctic oil

Parliament Member fears Norway never will make money from ENI’s scandal platform in the Barents Sea that now has been shut down for two months.
November 02, 2017

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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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