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He was educated at Westminster School and studied Modern History at Christ Church, Oxford.
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He is a former Moscow and Istanbul Bureau Chief for Newsweek Magazine. Matthews has lectured on Russian history and politics at Columbia University"s Harriman Centre, Street Antony"s College Oxford, and the Faculty of Moscow State University. Owen Matthews was born in London in 1971.
During the Bosnian War, Matthews worked as foreign correspondent in Budapest, Sarajevo and Belgrade.
From 1995-1997 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.
