Catherine Belton
Investigative journalist and author
Catherine Belton is a British journalist who has reported on Russia for many years. She wrote Putin's People, a 2020 book about Vladimir Putin's rise.
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British Born 1973
About Catherine Belton
Catherine Belton, born in 1973, is a British journalist and writer who lives in London. She was the Financial Times Moscow correspondent from 2007 to 2013 and its legal correspondent in 2016. Earlier in her career she wrote about Russia for the Moscow Times and BusinessWeek, and she has also served as an investigative correspondent at Reuters. Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West was published in 2020. The Economist and the Financial Times were among those that named it a book of the year. Belton received an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2023 New Year Honours, for services to journalism.