Pilar Bonet

Pilar Bonet is a journalist widely awarded and recognized for her extensive work in the analysis of the last decades in the Soviet and post-Soviet territories. She has been a correspondent for the Vienna headquarters of Agencia EFE and for thirty-four years, she headed the correspondent of the newspaper El País in the Soviet Union initially, and later in Russia and the post-Soviet states. She covered events such as Gorbachev's rise to power in the Soviet Union, the disintegration of the USSR, and the Russian annexation of Crimea and Donbass. She also worked as a correspondent in Germany for four years and as research at Kennan Institute i al Woodrow Wilson Center de Washington. Bonet is the author of the books Imágenes sobre fondo rojo. Estampas de la crisis soviética (Aguilar, 1992) and La Rusia imposible (Aguilar, 1994), among others. Náufragos del imperio (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2023) is her latest publication, an essential essay to understand the roots of the war unleashed by Putin in Ukraine. In 1990 she received the Víctor de la Serna Award, and in 1996, the Cirilo Rodríguez Journalism Award. She has also been awarded twice by the International Press Club as the Best Spanish Correspondent Abroad.