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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Putin's Russia: Exile Businessmen
Yevgeny Chichvarkin once took London by storm.... MORE
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Russia's New Police State
In principle, Russia enshrines the same rights—against self-incrimination and the presumption of... MORE
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Turkey Straddles East and West
Once an unquestioning U.S.... MORE
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Russia’s Olympic Fear
Worry is rising over the risk of terrorism at Russia’s 2014 Winter Olympics.... MORE
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Anna Chapman, Parliamentarian
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Regime Change Everyone Can Love
It’s not often that Brussels and Moscow see eye to eye on the politics of the former Soviet Union.... MORE
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I Owe My Life to a Spy Exchange
In 1969, Britain traded two senior Soviet spies for a Russian student accused of passing... MORE
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New Russian Law Looks to Crack Down on Internet
On a recent visit to America, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sent his first tweet, chatted to... MORE
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Georgia's Saakashvili Has a New Friend: Iran
As Moscow and Washington have grown closer in the last two years, Georgia—which depends on the... MORE
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How Obama Bought Russia's (Expensive) Friendship
President Obama meets today with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev—a Bush-era foe whose friendship... MORE
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How Kyrgyzstan Tamed Moscow
It’s still not clear what sparked the ethnic pogroms in south Kyrgyzstan that left at least 124... MORE
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Georgia Suffers in U.S.-Russia Reset
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Putin Backs a Major Thaw in Russian Foreign Policy
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Europe Could Soon Be Dependent On Iran For Gas
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