Catherine Belton: How KGB Capitalism Took Over Russia

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Catherine Belton: How KGB Capitalism Took Over Russia—and the World

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Catherine Belton: How KGB Capitalism Took Over Russia—and the World

Andrew Keen

Sep 29, 2020

On today's episode, Catherine Belton, author of Putin's People, discusses how the KGB took a punt on Trump and won.

Catherine Belton worked from 2007-2013 as the Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times, and in 2016 as the newspaper's legal correspondent. She has previously reported on Russia for Moscow Times and Business Week. In 2009, she was shortlisted for Business Journalist of the year at the British Press Awards. She lives in London.

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