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URL:https://www.societe-de-lecture.ch/events/owen-matthews/
SUMMARY:Owen Matthews
DESCRIPTION:Overreach : the Inside Story of Putin’s War Against Ukraine\n
 \nInterview conducted by Raphael Minder\, Central Europe correspondent for
  the Financial Times\n\nBorn in 1971\, OWEN MATTHEWS is a British writer\,
  historian and journalist who studied Modern History at Oxford University.
  Award-winning correspondent and fluent Russian-speaker\, he has lived and
  worked in Moscow for over 25 years. He worked first as a staffer for The 
 Moscow Times and then as Newsweek’s Moscow and Istanbul Bureau Chief. He
  has covered conflicts in Bosnia\, Lebanon\, Afghanistan\, Chechnya\, Iraq
 \, Georgia and Eastern Ukraine. He currently contributes to Foreign Policy
 \, Spectator\, Daily Mail\, Telegraph and The Critic. His first book\, Sta
 lin’s Children : Three Generations of Love and War (Bloomsbury\, 2008) w
 as shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award\, the Orwell Prize for po
 litical writing and France’s prix Médicis Étranger. His ten books have
  been translated into 28 languages. In his latest\, Overreach : the Inside
  Story of Putin’s War Against Ukraine (Mudlark\, 2023)\, Owen Matthews\n
 traces both the historical roots of Russia’s 2022 invasion and the fatal
  web of disinformation\, delusion and bad assumptions inside the Kremlin t
 hat led to the attack. Reporting from both Moscow and Kyiv during the war\
 , he weaved an extensive network of contacts in Russia’s government\, se
 curity services and military enabling him to draw a detailed picture of th
 e personalities and chain of decisions that led to the first year of the c
 onflict. Overreach was awarded the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023.
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