Owen Matthews

Owen Matthews was born in London. He studied Modern History at the University of Oxford and began his career in 1994 as a journalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia. He then worked for the Moscow Times, an English-language daily newspaper in Russia, while also contributing to various publications, including "The Times," "Daily Telegraph," "Spectator," "Times Literary Supplement," and "Independent." Since 1997, he has worked as a correspondent for "Newsweek" magazine, initially in Moscow, where he covered the Second Chechen War and topics of political and social interest, and later, from 2001, in Istanbul, where he focused on Middle Eastern issues. He witnessed the American bombing of the Panjshir Valley in Afghanistan and covered the first two years of the Iraq War. Today, he is the head of the "Newsweek" bureau in Moscow, where he lives with his wife and their two children.