Owen Matthews

The terrible choice facing Russia’s opposition – stay, or go?

29 April 2023 9:00 am

The terrible choice facing Russia’s opposition

‘Navalny is ready to fight and win’: meet the Russian rebel’s chief of staff

8 April 2023 9:00 am

The Russian rebel’s chief of staff on standing up to Putin

The mild-mannered economist who could end Erdogan’s rule

25 March 2023 9:00 am

Could a mild-mannered economist put an end to the Turkish leader’s 20-year rule?

Were Ukrainians behind the Nord Stream bombings?

21 March 2023 5:00 pm

Vladimir Putin has his story, and he’s sticking to it: the destruction of three of the four Gazprom-owned Nord Stream…

Is Georgia seeing a ‘colour revolution’?

14 March 2023 8:00 am

On the face of it, the protests that rocked the Georgian capital of Tbilisi last week looked a lot like…

China is playing the long game over peace in Ukraine

20 February 2023 5:00 pm

At the Munich Security Conference over the weekend, China’s foreign minister Wang Yi announced that his country was currently in…

One year on: how will the Ukraine war end?

4 February 2023 9:00 am

One year into the war, where does Ukraine go from here?

Boris Bondarev: Why more Russians aren’t defecting

18 January 2023 10:00 pm

Russian diplomat Boris Bondarev on his decision to defect

Wasted energy: Putin’s plan to freeze Europe has failed

14 January 2023 9:00 am

Putin’s plan to freeze Europe has failed

Voices in the wilderness: Russia’s exiled media

17 December 2022 9:00 am

Russia’s exiled media should be protected, not shut down

The red line: Biden and Xi’s secret Ukraine talks revealed

26 November 2022 9:00 am

Beijing’s secret role in the Ukraine war

Russian roulette: what ‘tactical’ nuclear war would mean

12 November 2022 9:00 am

The evolution of ‘tactical’ nuclear war

What Zelensky has taken from his former TV career

29 October 2022 9:00 am

Volodymyr Zelensky is one of the few leaders of modern times whose charisma, determination and sheer cojones can be said,…

Kremlin crack-up: who’s out to get Putin?

15 October 2022 9:00 am

Inside the power struggle at the heart of Russia

Who really blew up the Kerch Bridge?

11 October 2022 12:13 am

Who blew up the Kerch bridge? One of President Zelensky’s most senior advisers, Mikhailo Podolyak, has suggested that the Russians…

War has come home to Russia

1 October 2022 9:00 am

  Moscow A week of somewhat mixed messages from the Kremlin. One day Vladimir Putin opened Europe’s largest Ferris wheel…

Europe should welcome fleeing Russians

23 September 2022 3:05 am

In the wake of Vladimir Putin’s surprise announcement of partial mobilisation on Wednesday, thousands of young Russian men decided that…

More mad than Vlad: Russia’s ultra-nationalist threat

17 September 2022 9:00 am

Putin’s most dangerous opposition comes from Russia’s ultra-nationalists

Nothing is certain in Russia, where the past is constantly rewritten

20 August 2022 9:00 am

Nothing is certain in a country where the past is constantly rewritten, says Owen Matthews

A Russian visa ban would delight Putin

11 August 2022 11:57 pm

Do you hate Russia, or do you hate Putin? That’s the central question behind a current debate about whether to…

Sanctions are working – whatever Putin says

6 August 2022 9:00 am

Sanctions are working — whatever Russia says

How Russia is holding Ukraine’s wheat exports to ransom

11 June 2022 9:00 am

Putin is holding Ukraine’s wheat exports to ransom

Cold Turkey: why is Erdogan resisting Nato’s expansion?

21 May 2022 9:00 am

Why is Erdogan resisting Nato’s expansion?

The new White Russians: the fate of émigrés fleeing Putin

7 May 2022 9:00 am

The fate of Russia’s émigrés

Cross to bear: can Russia ever atone for Putin’s sins?

16 April 2022 9:00 am

Can Russia ever atone for Putin’s sins?