Owen Matthews was born on December 1971 and is a British writer, historian and journalist.
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Owen Matthews is a former Moscow and Istanbul Bureau Chief for Newsweek.
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Owen Matthews's mother was born in Kharkiv, Soviet Ukraine, and he speaks Russian as a native speaker.
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Owen Matthews was educated at Westminster School and studied Modern History at Christ Church, Oxford.
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Owen Matthews is currently a contributing writer for The Spectator Magazine.
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In 2013 Owen Matthews had his first solo art show, "Impact" at the Galerie Nivet Carzon in Paris.
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The installation centred on an impacted 9mm pistol round which Owen Matthews picked up from a pavement in Baghdad, Iraq, next to the body of a man whom it had killed.
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Owen Matthews co-wrote the 2015 Russian television series Londongrad and played an episodic role in it.
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Owen Matthews played the US Ambassador to Moscow in the 2017 Russian television series The Optimists.
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Owen Matthews was known for outspoken criticism of the Kremlin and his clashes with senior Russian politicians, including Vladimir Zhirinovsky.