Book HackPutin's PeopleBy Catherine Belton
In a Nutshell
Catherine Belton, former Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times, explores the strategies that Vladimir Putin and his circle have developed to interfere with Western culture and politics.
Favorite Quote
What emerged as a result of the KGB takeover of the economy ... was a regime in which the billions of dollars at Putin's cronies' disposal were to be actively used to undermine and corrupt the institutions and democracies of the West.
Catherine Belton
Introduction
The end of the Soviet Union and the succession of Boris Yeltsin's government turned the collapsed Russian state into a functioning capitalist economy.
When Vladimir Putin came to power, his era became characterized by the close relationship between business interests and state officials, as well as strategies aimed at destabilizing Western democratic nations.
Catherine Belton is an award-winning journalist and writer, and was the Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times from 2007-2013.
Belton's 2020 book, Putin's People, offers a comprehensive account of how Russian money and influence have been infiltrating the West for decades.
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