Thomas Nilsen

U.S. calls for shared icebreaker operations

Like mankind cooperated on spaceships in the Star Trek movies, joint icebreaker operations in the Arctic would benefit all of us today, says Admiral Papp.
October 07, 2016

Last voyage for «Sibir»

After being moored for 23 years, the nuclear powered icebreaker will be towed for final decommissioning.
October 05, 2016

Vyacheslav Ruksha awarded honorary citizen of Murmansk

Murmansk celebrates 100th anniversary and awards the General Director of Russia’s nuclear icebreaker fleet with the city’s highest award.
October 05, 2016

Warm autumn on the top of Europe

September temperatures in Hammerfest on Norway’s Barents Sea coast were 3,1°C above normal.
October 05, 2016

Vanishing sea ice gives Norway more waters to patrol, orders new Coast Guard vessels

Three new vessels with ice-breaking capabilities, helicopter and longer sailing range will be built simultaneously.
September 29, 2016

Two Bulava missiles test-fired from White Sea

One hit target on the Kamchatka Peninsula, the other exploded.
September 27, 2016

Major power ministry in making - return of the KGB

Newspaper says Vladimir Putin will recreate Soviet-ear security structures in a new body known by the acronym MGB.
September 23, 2016

Elections turnout reaches all-time low

Crushing victory for Pro-Putin parties, but elections turnout was only 47 percent.
September 19, 2016

Announces tender for fantasy-giant icebreakers

Russia prepares for year-round Arctic shipping with vessels more powerful than ever seen in northern waters.
September 16, 2016

Waters in ice-free Arctic now four degrees warmer than normal

Sea ice on the top of the world melts to second lowest on record.
September 16, 2016

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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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