Thomas Nilsen

Less asylum-seekers on Arctic Route, but still many children

This Afghan girl is one of more than 1,000 children that have entered Norway at Storskog on bicycle.
November 23, 2015

Sun sets on Europe’s far north

This week, the sun goes down for the last time this year for Troms and Finnmark counties and is not back again until late January.
November 22, 2015

Arkhangelsk goes ahead with radioactive waste plans for Novaya Zemlya

Regional Committee believes a disposal site far away from populated areas is best option for Northwest-Russia.
November 20, 2015

Simonov on Foreign Agent list

Well-known Barents Press supporter and head of Glasnost Defense Foundation, Alexei Simonov, will appeal Russia’s Justice Ministry’s decision.
November 20, 2015

Jagland calls on Russia to revise Foreign Agent law

In Barents Russia, seven groups are already branded as Foreign Agents.
November 19, 2015

Novaya Zemlya mine needs 450 workers

Exploration starts next summer and recovery of ore could start a few years later in what will be the largest mine in the Arctic.
November 19, 2015

Arctic heat wave ahead of climate talks

The Arctic, including Svalbard, was 2 to 4 degrees warmer in October than the 1951-1980 average, according to newly released data from NASA.
November 18, 2015

Santa’s beds are fully booked

More than 500 flights are expected to Rovaniemi in what could be the best ever tourist season.
November 17, 2015

Lipponen asks EU to launch “missing link” railway to Kirkenes

November 15, 2015

Russia plans ballistic missile test from the White Sea this weekend

November 13, 2015

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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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