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Trude Pettersen

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Trude Pettersen worked for the Norwegian Barents Secretariat from 2008 - 2016 as the assistant editor of BarentsObserver. Trude graduated from the University of Tromsø in 2000 with a MA degree in Russian. She has also studied International Politics and Russia and Eastern Europe Area Studies.

Content by Trude Pettersen

Ex-minister suggests pause in Russian Arctic oil

“Arctic offshore oil production is only profitable at an oil price of 100-120 dollars per barrel” says Former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov.

January 14, 2015

Baby, it’s cold outside

Cold records are repeatedly broken and the Kola fjord is covered with ice. It is cold in the Barents Region now.

January 13, 2015

Golden Globe to “Leviathan”

Andrey Zvyagintsev’s film “Leviathan” won the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards. The film is mainly shot in Teriberka on the coast of the Barents Sea.

January 13, 2015

Black Sea Fleet submarines in Arctic tests

Russia is using the Arctic as training ground for its newest class of diesel-electric submarines built for the Black Sea Fleet.

January 09, 2015

A good year for Barents news

2014 was a very good year for news and stories from the Barents Region and the Arctic. BarentsObserver last year had 30 percent more readers than the year before. Not surprisingly, articles covering security issues drew most readers.

January 08, 2015

Record year for Norwegian seafood

Despite the collapse of the Russian market, exports of Norwegian seafood set new records in 2014. The total value of exports reached NOK 68.8 billion, up NOK 7.3 billion from 2013.

January 07, 2015

New rescue vessel starts sea trials

The Northern Fleet’s new rescue vessel «Igor Belousov» has completed its first sea trials and should be ready for transfer to the north in course of the first quarter of 2015.

January 07, 2015

Cost of new border check-point down NOK 100 million

By using military explosive clearing personnel instead of civilian contractors to search for WWII explosives on the building site, the price tag for the new border-crossing station at Storskog was reduced with NOK 100 million.

January 07, 2015

Russian-Finnish relations weakened by Ukraine crisis

Russian-speakers living in Finland believe the Ukraine conflict has had a negative impact on Russian-Finnish relations, but most don’t feel that Finnish attitudes towards them have changed for the worse.

January 06, 2015

Warmest year in history

2014 was the warmest year ever recorded in Norway. The average annual temperature was 2.2 °C higher than normal - a jump of 0.4 degrees from the last record.

January 06, 2015