Atle Staalesen

Aiming for year-round sailing on Northern Sea Route

Russia should find ways to keep the Arctic route open all year round, Deputy PM Rogozin says. And the Chinese must be invited onboard.
December 14, 2015

Chinese money for Arkhangelsk rail and port

Arkhangelsk intends to become a new major logistics hub in the Arctic.
December 10, 2015

Russia deploys S-300 in Novaya Zemlya

A new regiment equipped with the lethal long range surface-to-air missile system becomes operative in the Arctic archipelago.
December 09, 2015

No investors for Murmansk rare earth metals

The Afrikanda deposit is one of the most perspective in the country, Murmansk regional authorities say.
December 09, 2015

Growing Russian interest in Norwegian oil

Four Russian-owned companies bid for the Arctic licenses offered as part of Norway’s 23rd License Round.
December 09, 2015

New terminal tanker in Kola Bay

The 300,000 ton tanker ”Umba” will serve Gazprom Neft’s Prirazlomnoye and Novoportovkoye fields.
December 09, 2015

Rosneft aims for Pechora LNG

The state company buys 100 percent of Pechora LNG, the projected gas plant on the Russian Arctic coast.
December 08, 2015

Arctic migrant flow, now in reverse

For weeks, big numbers of asylum seekers crossed into Norway from Russia. Now, the migrants are sent back to Russia. By the same bicycles.
December 08, 2015

Norway, Russia prepare for cross-border Arctic oil

As Norway invites its oil industry into new Barents Sea waters, it steps up talks with Russia over a cross-border exploration deal.
December 08, 2015

On Russian Arctic coast, a Turkish problem

The developers of the Yamal LNG project are in dire need of almost 1000 Turkish engineers and construction workers.
December 07, 2015

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Atle is journalist and Publisher of the Independent Barents Observer.

In 2002, he founded the Barents Observer. He was editor until 2009 and later worked as journalist and project coordinator for several European cross-border cooperation projects. In late 2015, following a conflict over editorial rights, he re-established the Barents Observer as an independent and non-profit stock company along with the rest of the newspaper crew.  

Atle has a degree in Russian studies from the University of Oslo and studied journalism at the Moscow State University.

atle@thebarentsobserver.com
@atlestaalesen