‘We are a threat to Putin’: the small Norwegian news outlet with half its staff on Russia’s wanted list.
4 November 2026
Exiled journalists at the Barents Observer face growing intimidation as Moscow seeks to control media beyond its borders.
The small, journalist-owned online newspaper publishes in English and Russian from a modest office in the north-eastern Norwegian town of Kirkenes.
The small, journalist-owned online newspaper publishes in English and Russian from a modest office in the north-eastern Norwegian town of Kirkenes.