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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

Trawler

Russia is Norway’s most important fish market

Russia has climbed to the top of the Norwegian fish export list and passed France in 2011. The total export of Norwegian fish to Russia was € 650 million last year.

January 04, 2012

Motivated for a new life

A disability should not hinder an active working career. It is all about training and motivation. Norwegian company Fretex is helping Russians with disabilities prepare themselves for a new life as full-time workers.

January 03, 2012

Norway won badminton Barents Match

Despite a troublesome start, the Norwegian team won the Barents Match in badminton recently, which was held in the Russian town of Apatity.

December 12, 2011

Winners - Advent Calendar 2011

The 2011 Advent Calendar quiz is now finished. We thank all quiz enthusiasts for their participation. We have sent an e-mail to all winners, but not all have answered. If you are on this list and have not received your winnings yet, please contact: [email protected].

Below you find the list of winners in the 2011 BarentsObserver.com advent calendar.

December 02, 2011

Northern characters united in Murmansk

MURMANSK: Film producers from all over the Barents Region gathered in Murmansk last week to share their work and unite journalists of the Northern countries.

November 23, 2011

Melodic Harmony of the Barents Region

Vegard Austli Kjøsnes, Laila Renate Buer Storli and Nikolay Vimorkov in TRI Comdares amaze the audience with folk motives of Norway and Russia.

November 14, 2011

Mining down deep – profits sky rocket

KIRUNA: European financial crisis is of no concern and unemployment does not exist. Iron ore company LKAB’s profit is skyrocketing as they dig their way deeper and deeper down under the town of Kiruna in northern Sweden. Now, the town has to move to prevent it from sinking into the cracks left by the mine.

November 01, 2011

"Nikel pollution will increase"

ZAPOLYARNY: The new briquetting plant in Zapolyarny will reduce the total emissions in the Nikel-Zapolyarny area in the future. However, the local emissions around Nikel, 7 kilometers from the Norwegian border, will increase with 30 000 ton of SO2 anually due to increased production here.

October 28, 2011

Photos and video from Kiruna meetings

KIRUNA: The meetings in the Regional council and in the Barents Euro-Arctic council took place in Kiruna this week on several spectacular locations. See BarentsObserver.com’s photos from Kiruna.

October 13, 2011

Youth focus for new chairmanship

KIRUNA: Norrbotten see local youth as one of the Barents Region´s most important resources and aims at promoting young entrepreneurship in their two-year term of chairmanship.

October 11, 2011