Matthew Luxmoore is a British-Polish journalist based in Moscow. He has reported among others on the war in Ukraine’s east, the plight of Georgia’s internally displaced, life in newly-annexed Crimea, tensions in the Moldovan breakaway state of Transnistria and Orthodox Church influence in Siberia, and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy and Politico. Follow him on Twitter @mjluxmoore.