Question: What town in the Sor-varanger Municipality of Norway was the BarentsObserver based in?

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Stavanger: Stavanger (] ) is a city and municipality in Norway.  The city is the third-largest urban zone and metropolitan area in Norway (through conurbation with neighbouring Sandnes) and the administrative centre of Rogaland county.  The municipality is the fourth most populous in Norway.  Located on the Stavanger Peninsula in Southwest Norway, Stavanger counts its official founding year as 1125, the year the Stavanger Cathedral was completed.  Stavangers core is to a large degree 18th- and 19th-century wooden houses that are protected and considered part of the city's cultural heritage.  This has caused the town centre and inner city to retain a small-town character with an unusually high ratio of detached houses, and has contributed significantly to spreading the city's population growth to outlying parts of Greater Stavanger.

Stord: Stord is a municipality in Hordaland county, Norway.  It is located in the traditional district of Sunnhordland.  Stord is sometimes called "Norway in miniature" since it has such a variety of landscapes: coastline, fjords, forests, agricultural land, and mountain areas.  The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Leirvik, which is also the largest town in the municipality and the whole region of Sunnhordland.  Leirvik was declared a town in 1997.  Other population centres in the municipality include the large village of Sagvåg and the smaller villages of Litlabø and Grov.

Sandtorg: Sandtorg is a village and a former municipality in Troms county in Norway.  It is located in the southern part of the present-day municipality of Harstad.  The old Sandtorg municipality covered the eastern part of the island of Hinnøya as well as some smaller islands in the Vågsfjorden.  The municipality stretched from the southern border of the town of Harstad to the county border in the south.  The administrative centre of the municipality was actually located in the town of Harstad, although the town was not part of the municipality.  The main church for the municipality was Sandtorg Church, located in the village of Sørvika.

Sør-Varanger: Sør-Varanger (, Kven: "Etelä-Varenki" , Finnish: "Etelä-Varanki" , Russian: Сёр-Вара́нгер ) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.  The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kirkenes.  Other settlements in the municipality include the villages of Bjørnevatn, Bugøynes, Elvenes, Grense Jakobselv, Hesseng, Jakobsnes, Neiden, and Sandnes.  Located west of the Norway–Russia border, Sør-Varanger is the only Norwegian municipality that shares a land border with Russia, with the only legal border crossing at Storskog.

Moldøen: Moldøen (also known as Lisjemåløyna, Øyna, or Måløy Island) is a small island in Vågsøy Municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway.  It is located immediately east of the town of Måløy in the Ulvesund strait between the large island of Vågsøy and the village of Degnepoll on the mainland.  Historically, the island was stragetically placed in the main shipping lane on Norway's coast with harbour facilities for vessels sailing between Bergen and Northern Norway and was visited by King Frederik IV in 1704.  The island became an important trading post for the region and was the original site of the town of Måløy.  Moldøen with its trading privileges was owned by a number of succeeding families such as Fester, Glad, Friis, Knoph, Schmidt and Lem until the area was expropriated by the municipality for development.  The town has since spread onto the island of Vågsøy, where the majority of the town is now located.

Thomas Nilsen: Thomas Nilsen (29 August 1968) is a Norwegian journalist who has extensively covered oil drilling in the Arctic region.  He was editor of the "BarentsObserver," a Norwegian Arctic online newspaper based in Kirkenes, for six years before he was sacked in 2015.  Norway’s public service broadcaster, NRK, claim Nilsen was sacked at the behest of the Russian intelligence service, the FSB.

Halse og Harkmark: Halse og Harkmark is a former municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway.  The 105 km2 municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1964.  The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Halse, which at that time was a suburb of the town of Mandal.  It was located in the southern part of the present-day municipality of Mandal.  When it was a municipality, it encompassed the rural areas that surrounded the town of Mandal, including many islands such as Hille, Skjernøy, and Pysen (Norway's southernmost point).

Kirkenes:    (, Kven: "Kirkkoniemi" , Russian: Киркенес , Finnish: "Kirkkoniemi" ) is a town in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, in the far northeastern part of Norway.  The town lies on a peninsula along the Bøkfjorden, an arm of the large Varangerfjorden.  The main church for Kirkenes is Kirkenes Church, located in the Haganes area of the town.

Farsund:    is a municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway.  It is located in the traditional district of Lister.  The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Farsund.  Farsund is a coastal municipality in the far southwestern part of Norway, bordering Kvinesdal municipality in the north and Lyngdal in the north and east.

Finnmark University College: Finnmark University College (Norwegian: "Høgskolen i Finnmark" or HiF) was a university college with three campuses throughout Finnmark, Norway.  In August 2013 Finnmark University College and the University of Tromso merged to form what is now called the "University of Tromso - Norway's Arctic University".  The Faculty of Education and Liberal Arts and the Faculty of Business and Social Work is located in the town of Alta in Alta Municipality, while the Faculty of Nursing is located in the town of Hammerfest in Hammerfest Municipality.  The Barents International School, part of the business school, was located in the town of Kirkenes in Sør-Varanger Municipality.  The university college was established on 1 August 1994, and had approximately 2,000 students and 240 employees.

Supporting paragraphs: Thomas Nilsen Kirkenes
Answer: Kirkenes