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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

Russia to reorganize military forces in the Arctic

Russia’s Northern Fleet will be the base of a new strategic formation – Northern Fleet-United Strategic Command - that will have as its main objective to defend Russia’s interests in the Arctic. The new formation will include forces on the border to Norway and in the high Arctic.

February 17, 2014

Wild dogs unwanted in Norway

Norwegian authorities fear that a pack of stray dogs from Russia has settled in the Pasvik valley.

February 14, 2014

Murmansk search and rescue center in the pipeline

Russia is developing its search and rescue infrastructure along the Northern Sea Route and plans to open ten SAR centers by 2015. Murmansk will have its center ready in November.

February 13, 2014

Tough competition for Antarctic jobs

More than 200 people want to spend a year at Norway’s research station Troll on Queen Maud Land in the Antarctic.

February 12, 2014

New head of indigenous cooperation in the Barents Region

The Barents cooperation’s Working Group of Indigenous Peoples has elected a new leader – Christina Henriksen, Saami from Norway. She points out international cooperation and its permanent funding as two of her main objectives in her work.

February 12, 2014

Opens up for border citizens on Saturday

Norway’s General Consulate plans to keep its doors open for people applying for border citizen certificates, without them having to take a day off from work.

February 11, 2014

Possible hydrocarbon findings on Langlitinden in Barents Sea

North Norwegian energy company Det norske found hydrocarbons in its first own-operated well in the Barents Sea.

February 11, 2014

IKEA logging in Karelia not sustainable

IKEA subsidiary Swedwood has lost is Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certificate on logging in Karelia.

February 10, 2014

Improving roads between Norway and Finland

Norwegian and Finnish road authorities have agreed to establish joint projects to improve road standards on two different roads connecting the countries’ northern regions.

February 05, 2014

Arctic still Norway’s most important foreign political target area

Norway’s Minister of Local Government and Modernisation Jan Tore Sanner believes Norway has both great opportunities and a great responsibility in the north and wants to make northern Norway into the country’s most sustainable and creative regions.

February 04, 2014