Owen Matthews

From 2016-18 Matthews appeared regularly as a guest on Russian political talk shows 60 Minut (Russia's top-rated talk show on Rossiya 1); NTV's Mesto Vstrechi and Rossiya 1's Evening with Vladimir Solovyev . Hw was known for outspoken criticism of the Kremlin and his clashes with senior Russian politicians, including Vladimir Zhironovsky.

Matthews co-wrote the 2015 Russian television series Londongrad and played an episodic role in it. Matthews also played the US Ambassador to Moscow in the 2017 Russian television series The Optimists .

In 2013 Matthews had his first solo art show, "Impact" at the Galerie Nivet Carzon in Paris . The installation centred on an impacted 9mm pistol round which Matthews picked up from a pavement in Baghdad, Iraq, next to the body of a man whom it had killed.

During the Bosnian War, Matthews worked as a foreign correspondent in Budapest, Sarajevo and Belgrade. From 1995–7 he worked as a 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. From 2006 to 2012 he was Newsweek's Moscow Bureau Chief; he is now a Contributing Editor at the magazine. In 2014 he reported for Newsweek on the conflict in Eastern Ukraine .

Owen Matthews (born 1971) is a British writer, historian and journalist. His first book, Stalin's Children, was shortlisted for the 2008 Guardian First Books Award, the Orwell Prize for political writing, and France's Prix Medicis Etranger. His books have been translated into 28 languages. He is a former Moscow and Istanbul Bureau Chief for Newsweek Magazine.

Owen Matthews was born in London in 1971. He was educated at Westminster School and studied Modern History at Christ Church, Oxford.