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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

Arctic weather forecast will improve thorugh cooperation.

Joining forces for Arctic forecast

Travelers in the Arctic can now get navigational warnings and weather forecast all the way to the North Pole. Meteorological services in Norway, Russia and Canada will twice a day broadcast updated warning on weather, wind and the ice edge.

June 06, 2011
From the performance "Arctic Voices" by Samovarteateret

Warmth of Arctic voices

The Arctic is more than ice, oil and political documents. The performance “Arctic Voices” by Norwegian Samovarteateret seeks to show the diversity of people living in the north and how High North politics infect their daily lives.

June 01, 2011
Eyvind Klewe from Marlo together with "Holmfoss" Captain Bjørnar Bendiksen and NMC project coordinator Harald Sørens

Northern corridor speeding up

By monitoring the transport of goods from Netherlands to Murmansk by sea way, the project Northern Maritime Corridor aims at showing that transport by sea is the fastest and simplest way to the north.

May 24, 2011

May 17th in Arkhangelsk - Made in Norway

People in Arkhangelsk know that Norway exports not only gas and fish. Norway also exports holidays.

May 18, 2011
Victory Day 2011 Kirkenes

Victory day celebrated

Victory day celebrations in the Norwegian border town of Kirkenes were performed in front of the Russian soldier monument.

May 09, 2011
Samia Madwar and Ora Morison

BarentsObserver desk becomes half Canadian

In May the BarentsObserver news desk will be expanded with the aid of two Canadian journalism students. Samia Madwar and Ora Morison have been given the Norwegian Embassy to Canada’s annual travel award, which is an internship at BarentsObserver.com.

May 05, 2011
CHNL Information office

Joining forces on NSR logistics

Russian Rosatomflot and the Center for High North Logistics see the need for more practical information on how to operate in the Northern Sea Route (NSR). The new information office in Kirkenes is going to provide such information worldwide.

April 13, 2011
Arctic oil shipping

Oil traffic capacity of 100 million tons

The rapid growth of the oil and gas sector in the Russian part of the Barents region will also boost the oil tanker traffic through the Barents Sea. Within five years the traffic capacity of the northern coast of Norway and Russia can reach 100 million tons annually, according to a newly published report.

April 07, 2011
Carl Bildt, Kirkenes 2009

- Barents raw materials are world class

The unique diversity of raw materials in the Barents Region must be better integrated in Europe, says the Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt.

March 17, 2011

The north through young lenses

Youth displaying their view of the Barents Region through photography is a new project initiated by the Barents Youth Council.

March 08, 2011