British
Catherine Belton is a British journalist who covers Russia and its business and political elite. She worked in Moscow for more than a decade, first at the Moscow Times, then as a correspondent for the Financial Times and Reuters. At the Financial Times she reported on the Kremlin, the oil industry and the fate of private business under Vladimir Putin. Her book Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West appeared in 2020. It traces how former KGB officers and their associates gained control of Russian wealth and extended their reach into Western finance and politics. It was named a Financial Times Book of the Year and won wide attention among readers and policymakers. The book also drew lawsuits from Roman Abramovich and Rosneft, and she later joined the Washington Post as a reporter. Her earlier work includes reporting for Business Week and the Moscow Times, and she is known for sustained investigative reporting built on interviews with insiders.