Acting
Catherine Belton
Acting
Biography
Catherine Belton is a correspondent for the Washington Post. From 2007 to 2013 she worked 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 and served as an investigative correspondent for Reuters. In 2009, she was shortlisted for Business Journalist of the year at the British Press Awards, and last year was honoured to win the Magnitsky award for Investigative Journalism. Catherine was 2021 Magnitsky Award Winner – Outstanding Investigative Journalist.
Television & Series (2)
A daily BBC Television current affairs programme which specialises in analysis and often robust cross-examination of senior politicians.
Newsnight
A handful of businessmen control Russian industry and especially the lucrative oil and gas sector, vital to the country’s post-soviet economy and war effort in Ukraine. This series tells the story of this fabulously wealthy group of men who have shaped their country but only survive if they remain in Vladimir Putin’s favour...