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Jonas Karlsbakk

Jonas Karlsbakk
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Jonas has been working for the Norwegian Barents Secretariat since 2008. He has a Masters Degree in Geography from NTNU in Trondheim from 2003. Between 2003 and 2008 he worked as a journalist in the local newspaper in Kirkenes, Sør-Varanger Avis.

Content by Jonas Karlsbakk

KV Harstad Photo: Thomas Nilsen

Fish fraud intensifying

Illegal fishing in restricted areas, fish dumping and avoiding to report about total amount of catch is what the Norwegian Coast Guard have been facing in increasing amount this year.

November 12, 2009
Garrison of Sør-Varanger (Photo Finnmarken.no)

Border garrison officers in drunken scandal

Last weekend a traditional party for the officers in the Norwegian Garrison of Sør-Varanger came out of control for some of the participants.Now several officers are under investigation for damages on military property.

November 06, 2009
Photo is manipulated

Too noisy for Bodø

Joint Strike Fighter might be too noisy for Bodø air base in northern Norway. The consequence could be that the coming main base for the Norwegian Air Force is placed elsewhere.

October 30, 2009
Sergey Smirnov and Harald Sørensen

Discussing membership in Sozvezdye

The Norwegian Barents Secretariat is considering a membership in the Sozvezdeye Association in Arkhangelsk, which is the association of suppliers to the oil and gas industry in Arkhangelsk Area.

October 27, 2009
Pia Svendsgaard and Pauli Saapunki

Troms County chair of Barents Regional Council

Troms County will for the next two years have the chairmanship of the Regional Council of the Barents Region. The new chairman Pia Svendsgård said in here opening speech that Troms will be an active chair in their period.

October 14, 2009
Mikhail Somov

Improved water pollution monitoring of the Arctic

A number of polar meteorological stations in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug have recently got new equipment and new buildings. This will contribute to a mayor improvement on water pollution monitoring in the Barents Sea, White Sea and Kara Sea.

October 09, 2009

Disappointment over UDI absence

UDI has opened a service centre in Kirkenes to give fast-track handling of relevant applications for Russian workers in Norway. However, UDI themselves will only be in the office in Kirkenes for 14 days. – Disappointing, says several local business leaders.

October 05, 2009

Russia invites to maritime business partnerships

Arkhangelsk County gathers private companies from Russia and Northern-Europe for maritime business meetings.

September 14, 2009
The Goliat Field

ENI cuts on environment research

The oil company ENI promised to spend 30 million EUR on environment research connected to the development of the Goliat oil field. Now it seems like the oil company will use only a small sum of money on the same project.

September 11, 2009
Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre

No fear for Russia

Norwegian foreign minister Jonas Gahr Støre sees nothing problematic or fearful in the increased Russian military activity in the north. – There is no tension between the Norwegian and the Russian military. 15 years of Norwegian-Russian cooperation has removed all of this, says Støre .

September 03, 2009