Matthew Kupfer
Matthew Kupfer is a senior reporter at The Standard focused on investigative and enterprise stories. He previously spent six years abroad working as the regional editor for Central Asia at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, as a reporter and the news editor at the Kyiv Post and as a staff reporter at the Moscow Times. Matthew holds a master’s from Harvard University and a bachelor’s from Brandeis University. Besides his native English, he is fluent in Russian and also speaks Ukrainian.
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