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Owen Matthews (born December 1971) is a British writer, historian and journalist

Owen Matthews was born in London in 1971. His mother was born in Kharkiv, Soviet Ukraine,[4] and he speaks Russian as a native speaker.

During the Bosnian War, Matthews worked as a freelance foreign correspondent in Budapest, Sarajevo and Belgrade.[5][6] From 1995–7 he worked as a city and features reporter on The Moscow Times. In 1997 he joined Newsweek Magazine's Moscow Bureau as a correspondent, covering the Second Chechen War. In 2001 he moved to Turkey, reporting from Turkey, the Caucasus, Syria and Iran, and also covering the invasions of Afghanistan and then Iraq.[5][7] From 2006 to 2012 he was Newsweek's Moscow Bureau Chief; and until 2019 was a Contributing Editor at the magazine.[5] In 2014 he reported for Newsweek on the conflict in Eastern Ukraine.[8] He is currently a contributing writer for The Spectator Magazine.[9]

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