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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

Kola Nuclear Power Delicatessen

The sturgeons living in the warm spill waters from the Kola Nuclear Power Plant will this year give 100 kg of black caviar, worth a total of 3 million rubles.

May 20, 2014

Sushi is the new taco

Sushi now makes 10 percent of Norway’s seafood purchases.

May 20, 2014

Norwegian-Finnish Arctic partnership in the pipeline

Norway and Finland are establishing an Arctic partnership for increased cooperation in the High North.

May 16, 2014

Mining town Kiruna preparing to move

Swedish mining company LKAB will invest €415.5 million in the moving of Kiruna town center away from its iron ore lode. Construction of the new Kiruna town center will start in June this year.

May 15, 2014

Western sanctions could curb Russian Arctic oil

The US and leading European allies are preparing wider economic sanctions against Russia that can include a ban on export of high-tech equipment for the energy sector. This could have a long-term impact on development of the Arctic shelf.

May 14, 2014

Agreement on aquaculture in Russian border area

The company Russian Salmon plans to invest €20 million in aquaculture in Liinakhamari on the coast of the Barents Sea. The new facilities could give 300 new jobs and make Russia less dependent on smolt and fodder from Norway.

May 13, 2014

Russian Barents Sea fish gets MSC certification

Cod and haddock caught in the Barents Sea by Russian companies have received their Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification and can be labelled as sustainable seafood.

May 12, 2014

Russian math to Norwegian children

A small publishing house in Kirkenes is publishing Russian textbooks in mathematics to be used in Norwegian primary schools. Russian curriculum has already been tested on Norwegian school children with good results.

May 09, 2014

Putin plays nuclear war games ahead of Victory day

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday oversaw the largest post-Soviet drill with launches of strategic missiles from the Barents Sea, Plesetsk near Arkhangelsk and the Pacific.

May 08, 2014

Baltiysky Shipyard to build three new icebreakers by 2020

Baltiysky Shipyard in St. Petersburg will build all three of Russia’s new nuclear-powered icebreakers.

May 08, 2014