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Owen Matthews

Owen Matthews is a Contributing Editor to Newsweek and former reporter for 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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Extreme Diets

My Week at an Austrian Fat Camp

Unpleasantly pudgy? Allergic to exercise? Give yourself over to Austria’s elite spas. Owen Matthews reports on the pleasures of vegetable broth and colonic irrigation.

Owen Matthews

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Putin v. West

E.U. Fight Club

Vladimir Putin is strongarming the leaders of ex-Soviet satellites to ditch their EU aspirations—but his bid to make Russia into an alternative power bloc is failing, says Owen Matthews.

Owen Matthews

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Putin’s Power Play on Syria

Support from Moscow hasn’t usually helped Middle East despots. Until now. By Owen Matthews

Owen Matthews

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EASTERN PROMISES

Moscow’s Mysterious Move

Owen Matthews on why Putin stands up for tax avoiders.

Owen Matthews

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BORIS AND ME

The Oligarch in Exile

<p><i>Owen Matthews</i> remembers the oligarch he knew, whose wealth and power seemed to bend the world around him.</p>

Owen Matthews

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Putin’s ‘Katrina Moment?’

Owen Matthews

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Modern Warfare

Russian Rocket Downed Plane

The Turkish jet shot out of the sky by Syrian fire was almost certainly hit by a rocket provided by the Russians, reports Owen Matthews.

Owen Matthews

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High Alert

Tensions Rise in Turkey

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that any Syrian vehicle approaching the border “will be treated as a military target.”

Owen Matthews

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New Reality

Putin’s Unlikely Foe

A Russian It-girl’s fall from Kremlin insider to ‘traitor.’ By Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova.

Anna Nemtsova

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Shots Fired

Syria Defied at Sea

A Russian ship was to deliver choppers to Syria—until a U.K. insurer made it a pariah. By Owen Matthews.

Owen Matthews

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