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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year 2020 A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 2020‘The Putin book that we’ve been waiting for’ Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland‘Books about modern Russia abound … Belton has surpassed them all. Her much-awaited book is the best and most important on modern Russia’ The TimesA chilling and revelatory expose of the KGB’s renaissance, Putin’s rise to power, and how Russian black cash is subverting the world.In Putin’s People, former Moscow correspondent and investigative journalist 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, Belton 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.In a story that ranges from Moscow to London, Switzerland and Trump’s America, Putin’s People is a gripping and terrifying account of how hopes for the new Russia went astray, with stark consequences for its inhabitants and, increasingly, the world.‘A fearless, fascinating account … Reads at times like a John le Carré novel … A groundbreaking and meticulously researched anatomy of the Putin regime, Belton’s book shines a light on the pernicious threats Russian money and influence now pose to the west’ Guardian

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PUTIN’S PEOPLE

How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West

Catherine Belton

Copyright Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph List of - фото 1

Copyright Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph List of Illustrations Dramatis Personae Prologue PART ONE 1. ‘Operation Luch’ 2. Inside Job 3. ‘The Tip of an Iceberg’ 4. Operation Successor: ‘It Was Already After Midnight’ 5. ‘Children’s Toys in Pools of Mud’ PART TWO 6. ‘The Inner Circle Made Him’ 7. ‘Operation Energy’ 8. Out of Terror, an Imperial Awakening 9. ‘Appetite Comes During Eating’ PART THREE 10. Obschak 11. Londongrad 12. The Battle Begins 13. Black Cash 14. Soft Power in an Iron Fist – ‘I Call Them the Orthodox Taliban’ 15. The Network and Donald Trump Epilogue Picture Section Notes Index Acknowledgements About the Author About the Publisher

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This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2020

Copyright © Catherine Belton 2020

Cover photograph © Getty Images

Catherine Belton asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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Dedication Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph List of Illustrations Dramatis Personae Prologue PART ONE 1. ‘Operation Luch’ 2. Inside Job 3. ‘The Tip of an Iceberg’ 4. Operation Successor: ‘It Was Already After Midnight’ 5. ‘Children’s Toys in Pools of Mud’ PART TWO 6. ‘The Inner Circle Made Him’ 7. ‘Operation Energy’ 8. Out of Terror, an Imperial Awakening 9. ‘Appetite Comes During Eating’ PART THREE 10. Obschak 11. Londongrad 12. The Battle Begins 13. Black Cash 14. Soft Power in an Iron Fist – ‘I Call Them the Orthodox Taliban’ 15. The Network and Donald Trump Epilogue Picture Section Notes Index Acknowledgements About the Author About the Publisher

To my parents, Marjorie and Derek,

as well as to Richard and to Catherine Birkett.

Epigraph Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph List of Illustrations Dramatis Personae Prologue PART ONE 1. ‘Operation Luch’ 2. Inside Job 3. ‘The Tip of an Iceberg’ 4. Operation Successor: ‘It Was Already After Midnight’ 5. ‘Children’s Toys in Pools of Mud’ PART TWO 6. ‘The Inner Circle Made Him’ 7. ‘Operation Energy’ 8. Out of Terror, an Imperial Awakening 9. ‘Appetite Comes During Eating’ PART THREE 10. Obschak 11. Londongrad 12. The Battle Begins 13. Black Cash 14. Soft Power in an Iron Fist – ‘I Call Them the Orthodox Taliban’ 15. The Network and Donald Trump Epilogue Picture Section Notes Index Acknowledgements About the Author About the Publisher

‘Russian organised-crime leaders, their members, their associates, are moving into Western Europe, they are purchasing property, they are establishing bank accounts, they’re establishing companies, they’re weaving themselves into the fabric of society, and by the time that Europe develops an awareness it’s going to be too late.’

Former FBI special agent Bob Levinson

‘I want to warn Americans. As a people, you are very naïve about Russia and its intentions. You believe because the Soviet Union no longer exists, Russia now is your friend. It isn’t, and I can show you how the SVR is trying to destroy the US even today and even more than the KGB did during the Cold War.’

Sergei Tretyakov, former colonel in Russian Foreign Intelligence, the SVR, stationed in New York

Contents

Cover

Title Page PUTIN’S PEOPLE How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West Catherine Belton

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

List of Illustrations

Dramatis Personae

Prologue

PART ONE

1. ‘Operation Luch’

2. Inside Job

3. ‘The Tip of an Iceberg’

4. Operation Successor: ‘It Was Already After Midnight’

5. ‘Children’s Toys in Pools of Mud’

PART TWO

6. ‘The Inner Circle Made Him’

7. ‘Operation Energy’

8. Out of Terror, an Imperial Awakening

9. ‘Appetite Comes During Eating’

PART THREE

10. Obschak

11. Londongrad

12. The Battle Begins

13. Black Cash

14. Soft Power in an Iron Fist – ‘I Call Them the Orthodox Taliban’

15. The Network and Donald Trump

Epilogue

Picture Section

Notes

Index

Acknowledgements

About the Author

About the Publisher

Illustrations Contents Cover Title Page PUTIN’S PEOPLE How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West Catherine Belton Copyright Dedication Epigraph List of Illustrations Dramatis Personae Prologue PART ONE 1. ‘Operation Luch’ 2. Inside Job 3. ‘The Tip of an Iceberg’ 4. Operation Successor: ‘It Was Already After Midnight’ 5. ‘Children’s Toys in Pools of Mud’ PART TWO 6. ‘The Inner Circle Made Him’ 7. ‘Operation Energy’ 8. Out of Terror, an Imperial Awakening 9. ‘Appetite Comes During Eating’ PART THREE 10. Obschak 11. Londongrad 12. The Battle Begins 13. Black Cash 14. Soft Power in an Iron Fist – ‘I Call Them the Orthodox Taliban’ 15. The Network and Donald Trump Epilogue Picture Section Notes Index Acknowledgements About the Author About the Publisher

Vladimir Putin’s identity card as a Stasi officer

Putin in his Dresden days

Putin, Lyudmilla and Katerina, or Katya, in August 1986 (Sovfoto/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

Sergei Pugachev and Pavel Borodin

Boris Yeltsin and Yevgeny Primakov (Itar Tass/Pool/Shutterstock)

Yeltsin’s daughter, Tatyana Dyachenko, and her husband Valentin Yumashev (Shutterstock)

Yeltsin handing over the presidency to Putin, 31 December 1999 (AFP/AFP via Getty Images)

Putin shaking hands with Pugachev

Putin with Nikolai Patrushev (Alexey Panov/AFP via Getty Images)

Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Boris Berezovsky (Alexei Kondratyev/AP/Shutterstock)

Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev facing trial in 2005 (Shutterstock)

Igor Sechin and Gennady Timchenko (Sputnik/TopFoto)

Yury Kovalchuk (Alexander Nikolayev/AFP via Getty Images)

Dmitry Firtash (Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Martin Schlaff (STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Konstantin Malofeyev (Sergei Malgavko\TASS via Getty Images)

Putin comforting Lyudmilla Narusova at the funeral of Anatoly Sobchak (Sputnik/Alamy)

Putin at his inauguration as president in May 2000 (AFP via Getty Images)

The evacuation of Moscow’s Dubrovka theatre (Anton Denisov/AFP via Getty Images)

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