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As part of Pushkin House Book Prize 2021, we are delighted to welcome Catherine Belton to speak about her shortlisted book Putin’s People. Catherine will be in conversation with Ben Noble, Associate Professor in Russian Politics at UCL in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. The discussion will be in front of a live audience at Pushkin House, but a recording will be made available to those who are unable to join in person (see ticket options below).
In Putin’s People, Catherine Belton reveals the untold story of how Vladimir Putin and his entourage of KGB men seized power in Russia and built a new league of oligarchs. Through exclusive interviews with key inside players, she tells how Putin’s people conducted their relentless seizure of private companies, took over the economy, siphoned billions, blurred the lines between organised crime and political powers, shut down opponents, and then used their riches and power to extend influence in the West.
Catherine Belton is an investigative correspondent for Reuters. She 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.
Read our Q&A with Catherine Belton
Ben Noble, is an Associate Professor in Russian Politics at University College London in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. He is also currently an Associate Fellow at Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs) in the Russia and Eurasia Programme; a Senior Research Fellow at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, in the Laboratory for Regional Political Studies; and a National Committee member of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies. He was previously the Herbert Nicholas Junior Research Fellow in Politics at New College, University of Oxford. Ben is interested in what legislatures do in authoritarian regimes. Specifically, his current research examines how executive actors with different policy preferences use legislative institutions to reconcile conflicts in the policy-making process. Ben is the co-author of the recently published book Navalny: Putin’s Nemesis, Russia’s Future?
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