Owen Matthews

Letter from Donetsk

11 October 2014 9:00 am

For what is technically peacetime, there’s a lot of shelling going on round here. Donetsk airport is still held by…

The frightening face of Russia’s future

30 August 2014 9:00 am

Cuddly liberals aren’t going to displace Putin: his real challengers are ultra-nationalists like Igor Strelkov

Empire of deceit

26 July 2014 9:00 am

Putin’s answer to the destruction of Flight MH17 has been more propaganda. In Russia, at least, it seems to be working

Will there be war in Ukraine?

10 May 2014 9:00 am

Further Russian military intervention would be a disaster. But Putin might have to do it anyway

A demonstration in Istanbul against the ban on Twitter, 22 March 2014

Forever on the march

5 April 2014 9:00 am

On a recent weekend I was thinking of taking my sons to downtown Istanbul to do some bazaar browsing. ‘Bad…

Putin’s poison pill

29 March 2014 9:00 am

Losing Crimea will be the making of Ukraine. And gaining it might well destroy the Russian president

Putin’s masterplan

22 February 2014 9:00 am

Russia is returning as an ideological force in the world – to champion conservative values

Putin’s own Cold War

17 August 2013 9:00 am

Russia is ever more hostile to the US. But the US no longer needs to care