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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

Russian Arctic scientists to be evacuated from ice floe

An icebreaker sailed from Murmansk yesterday to pick up 17 scientists who have spent four months on an ice floe near the North Pole.

August 05, 2015

Black Sea submarine fires cruise missile from the Barents Sea

The diesel-electric submarine “Novorossiysk” completed a series of tests in Arctic conditions by firing a cruise missile from the Barents Sea. The submarine will soon leave for the Black Sea.

August 04, 2015

Ice-free Arctic summers expected by 2050s

Improved computer simulations suggest that the Arctic will see its first ice-free summer in 2050, a decade earlier than previously projected.

August 04, 2015

Best half year ever for Norwegian seafood export

The export values of Norwegian seafood recorded in the first half of 2015 is the highest ever, amounting to €3.78 billion.

August 04, 2015

Stronger control of visitors to Svalbard

The Governor of Svalbard wants to know the identity of all air passenger arriving to the Arctic archipelago.

August 03, 2015

Russia’s Arctic oil rig reaches 4 million barrels

Russia’s only oil drilling rig in the Arcitc, the Prirazlomnaya platform, has now produced over 4 million barrels of crude oil.

July 31, 2015

Norway and Russia adjusting border line

For the first time since 1947 Norwegian and Russian authorities are adjusting the 196 kilometers long border between the two countries.

July 30, 2015

Arctic training for strategic nuclear submarines

Three of Russia’s newest strategic nuclear submarines will start combat training in Arctic waters this year.

July 30, 2015

New maritime doctrine to strengthen Arctic presence

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has approved a new maritime doctrine that focuses on naval presence in the Arctic and the Atlantic.

July 28, 2015

Record number of asylum seekers through Norwegian-Russian border

So far this year 58 asylum seekers have crossed the border from Russian into Norway. 55 of them came from Syria.

July 27, 2015