Пять лет назад улыбающийся Йенс Столтенберг получил удостоверение приграничного жителя для поездок в Печенгский район. Сегодня в российско-норвежском приграничье совершенно другая обстановка.
В своем ежегодном докладе глава военной разведки Норвегии генерал-лейтенант Мортен Хага Люнде обратил внимание на российско-китайское военное сотрудничество в Арктике.
По мнению совместной финско-норвежской рабочей группы, объем грузов недостаточен для обоснования строительства железной дороги между Рованиеми и Киркенесом.
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.