Thomas Nilsen

Moscow: «Russophobic report on Norway’s TV2»

Report about how Russian agents operate triggers «Fake News» stamp by the Foreign Ministry in Moscow.
October 11, 2017

Norway, Sweden in quarrel over cross-border reindeer grazing

Law professor doubts that the Norwegian government unilaterally can regulate Swedish husbandry on the Norwegian side of the border.
October 10, 2017

Safety authority orders shut down of Goliat oil production

«ENI must be deprived of its license to operate in the Barents Sea,» says Bellona’s Frederic Hauge.
October 09, 2017

Nornickel lowers smelting at Kola, for environmental reasons

«The project will halve the emissions of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere,» the company says.
October 04, 2017

Russia is close to fulfill New START Treaty

Since July, Russia’s strategic nuclear force is reduced by 204 warheads. In the north, though, no reduction is seen.
October 04, 2017

Kommersant: Russia lists Norway’s Svalbard policy as potential risk of war

Details from a Defense Ministry report show that Moscow is not happy with Norway’s attempt to establish absolute national jurisdiction over Svalbard and its shelf.
October 04, 2017

ECHR sides with Novaya Gazeta over Kursk disaster reporting

Russia violated Novaya Gazeta and its journalist Yelena Milashina’s right of freedom of expression.
October 03, 2017

Svalbard Airport Longyear no longer international

From October, international charter traffic can only in exceptional cases land at Svalbard.
October 03, 2017

Widerøe to fly Helsinki-Tromsø in cooperation with Finnair

The new route will connect northern Norway with Finnair’s Asian network.
October 03, 2017

Barents bishops ask Arctic Council to promote fossil-free future

Changes in the Arctic caused by climate changes are extremely serious, both ecologically and spiritually, the Council of Christian Churches in the Barents Region writes in a call to Timo Soini, Chairman of the Arctic Council.
October 03, 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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