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Russian Billionaire Sues U.K. Journalist, Publisher Over Book Tying Putin To KGB

Charlotte Pence Bond
Russian Billionaire Sues U.K. Journalist, Publisher Over Book Tying Putin To KGB
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A journalist and publisher in the United Kingdom are being sued by a Russian billionaire because of a book about Russian President Vladimir Putin.

As reported by The Associated Press, “Catherine Belton’s book ‘Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West’ charts the rise to wealth and power of former KGB agent Putin and his circle of associates after the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.”

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