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Catherine Belton is a British journalist and author. She served as the Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times and has written extensively on Russian politics, oligarchs, and corruption.
Known for: Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West
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Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West
An investigative exposé detailing how Vladimir Putin and former KGB operatives rebuilt Russia’s power structure and extended their influence globally. Catherine Belton, a former Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times, traces the networks of money and power that underpin Putin’s regime and its reach into Western institutions.
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Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Disarray of the 1990s and the Survival of KGB-Linked Elites Through Privatization and Asset Control
The fall of the Soviet Union was widely celebrated as the dawn of freedom, yet for those within the KGB, it was also a moment of strategy and adaptation. I found, through interviews and archival research, that even as the Communist Party disintegrated, its security apparatus refused to vanish. Inste...
From Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West
Emergence of the St. Petersburg Network: Putin’s Early Career and Key Alliances
Tracing Vladimir Putin’s career in St. Petersburg reveals the blueprint for his later governance. As deputy mayor under Anatoly Sobchak, Putin operated at the crossroad of city politics, foreign trade, and commercial licensing. On paper, he managed foreign relations; in practice, he built alliances ...
From Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West
About Catherine Belton
Catherine Belton is a British journalist and author. She served as the Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times and has written extensively on Russian politics, oligarchs, and corruption. Her work is recognized for its depth of research and insight into post-Soviet power dynamics.
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