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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 protests drilling in Svalbard zone

Russia believes Norway is violating the Svalbard Treaty when the Norwegian government opens three blocks for oil drilling in the Barents Sea, close to the Arctic archipelago.

May 05, 2015

Art from the icing generation

Four Norwegian artists are opening an art exhibition in Murmansk to show how the icing generation – the one that comes after the desert generation – sees the task of taking care of our planet.

April 29, 2015

Brundtland to meet with Putin in Moscow

Norway’s Former Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland and other members of the organization The Elders are in Moscow to meet with President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

April 28, 2015

Norway reaches 50,000 electric cars sales

Electric car number 50,000 was recently registered in Norway, two years ahead of planned schedule.

April 28, 2015

Norway, US inspectors make surveillance flight over Russia

Norwegian and American inspectors embark on a joint inspection flight over Russian territory as part of the Open Skies Treaty.

April 27, 2015

Murmansk official: Norway is polluting Murmansk

More than half of the pollution in Murmansk Oblast comes from Europe, and especially Norway, a representative from the regional ministry of ecology claims.

April 24, 2015

New icebreaker for the Northern Fleet

Russia plans to build four icebreakers for naval forces in the Arctic and Far East. Construction of the first vessel, “Ilya Muromets”, started in Saint Petersburg on Thursday.

April 23, 2015

Majorities in Arctic nations favor cooperation with Russia

A majority of the people living in the Arctic wants to continue cooperation with Russia despite the conflict in Ukraine. Norwegians are most in favor of diplomatic and cooperative approaches, a new survey shows.

April 23, 2015

Floating nuclear power plant ready by October 2016

Russia’s first floating nuclear power station for use in the Arctic will be ready by October 2016.

April 22, 2015

Bellona fined for failing to register as “foreign agent”

The environmental organization Bellona Murmansk has been fined 50,000 rubles for failing to voluntary register as a foreign agent.

April 22, 2015