Owen Matthews is a Contributing Editor to Newsweek and The Daily Beast based in Moscow and Istanbul. His work has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, the Guardian First Books Award, and France’s Prix Médicis.
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A Return Engagement for Russia
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Back to Afghanistan
Two decades after the Soviet Union’s humiliating retreat from Afghanistan, NATO is working to get... MORE
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The Real Reasons NEWSWEEK RUSSIA Folded
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Russian Criminals and Magnitsky
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Turkey Seeks End to Kurdish Separatist Struggle
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How Moscow's War on Islamist Rebels Is Backfiring
The video shows a gun barrel jutting from the rear window of a shiny black Lada sedan as it cruises... MORE
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Why Moscow Should Beware Beijing
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Medvedev May Edge Out Putin as Russia's Top Leader
The Russian political elite has lined up behind the new president, Dmitry Medvedev, rather than the... MORE
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Russia Suspects a Split at the Top
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Putin's Grand Illusions
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Old Istanbul Hotels Reveal New Style
Back when there was no tourism but only travel, the rich would take steamers and luxury trains to... MORE
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Should Turkey's Erdogan Worry the West?
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Viktor Bout's Secrets Frighten the Kremlin
There's a reason Russians oppose the extradition of arms dealer Viktor Bout—the man known as "the... MORE
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Is Russian Spy Anna Chapman Cashing In Already?
As part of the spy-swap deal that let her leave the country, flame-haired Russian sleeper agent... MORE
