Автор: Owen Matthews

x Owen Matthews was born in London in 1971. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he read Modern History. His career as a foreign correspondent began during the Bosnian civil war, when he reported from Budapest, Sarajevo and Belgrade for a number of UK newspapers and magazines. In 1995 Owen moved to Moscow and became a correspondent for Newsweek Magazine, and in 2001 he relocated to Istanbul and reported from Turkey, the Caucasus, Syria and Iran, as well as covering US-led invasions of Afghanistan and then Iraq. From 2006 to 2012 he was Newsweek’s Moscow Bureau Chief. Now based in Moscow and Istanbul, he is a contributing editor for Newsweek, and Newsweek Europe.Owen’s first book on Russian history was Stalin”s Children, a family memoir, which was published to great critical acclaim in 2008. The book was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Orwell Prize for political writing, and was selected as one of the Books of the Year by the Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph and the Spectator.