# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/catherine-belton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:18:10.658Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/catherine-belton"
name: "Catherine Belton"
slug: "catherine-belton"
description: "Catherine Elizabeth Belton is a British journalist and writer. From 2007 to 2013, she was the Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times. In Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West, published in 2020, Belton explored the rise of Russian president Vladimir Putin. It was named book of the year by The Economist, the Financial Times, the New Statesman and The Telegraph. It is also the subject of five separate lawsuits brought by Russian billionaires and Rosneft."
tagline: "Journalist and writer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1973"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.14
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.509938666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/CatherineBelton"
    handle:    "CatherineBelton"
sources:
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Belton"
    title: "Catherine Belton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Belton"
    title: "Catherine Belton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Belton"
    title: "Catherine Belton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Catherine_Belton"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Belton"
    title: "Catherine Belton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9A%D1%8D%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Белтон, Кэтрин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106163126"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump