PositiveThe Irish Times (IRE)Belton’s work on the financial dealings of Putin’s team is the most valuable aspect of Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West and it should be required reading, as it reveals their political implications and the West’s inadequate regulation of and occasional complicity in them ... The picture that emerges from Putin’s People is of a corrupt regime, hostile to the West and ready to use its enormous wealth to undermine it.