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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

Art travelogue from Murmansk to Kirkenes

The Russian artist Aleksander Florensky has written his own ironic version of 19. century travelogues describing more or less curious facts about the places being visited and with drawings by the author himself.

October 27, 2014

Historic war tunnel preserved

Rørbua, Norway’s first free administration building after World War II and the 1944 tunnel, where 3500 people were hiding during the last days of the war, were both declared preserved at a ceremony on Saturday.

October 25, 2014

King Harald of Norway thanked the Red Army

“Norway has never forgotten, and will never forget, the contribution our Russian neighbor gave to our freedom.

October 25, 2014

From Vladimir Putin, with thanks

Head of the Barents Institute Marianne Neerland Soleim on Saturday will receive President Putin’s letter of appreciation for her effort to identify Soviet prisoners of war who died in German camps in Norway.

October 24, 2014

New standards for Arctic oil and gas

Representatives from seven countries have gathered in Tromsø this week to create a new set of standards for sustainable standardized solutions for international petroleum activities in the Arctic.

October 20, 2014

Spoof Nobel Prize for dressing up as polar bears

Norwegian scientists won the Ig Nobel Award for investigating how reindeer react when they see people dressed up as polar bears.

October 17, 2014

Pentagon: Climate change is national security risk

The U.S. Department of Defense has released a “Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap”, detailing plans to combat both “immediate” and future national security risks due to climate change.

October 16, 2014

Third Arctic search and rescue center opened

In Arkhangelsk Russia has opened its third of ten planned search and rescue centers along the Northern Sea Route.

October 15, 2014

“Yekaterinburg” back in service in December

The nuclear-powered submarine “Yekaterinburg”, which was severely damaged in a fire in December 2011, will be put back in service in the Northern Fleet in December, Zvezdochka shipyard reports.

October 15, 2014

Russia to build military Arctic environmental center

Russia’s Ministry of Defense wants to enhance ecological monitoring in the Arctic and plans to establish a regional environmental center operated by the Northern Fleet.

October 14, 2014