Pilar Bonet Cardona (born 1952) is a Spanish journalist who has spent most of her professional career as a correspondent for the newspaper El País in Moscow.
The EFE agency hired her as a correspondent at its headquarters in Vienna, a place from which, in the 1970s and 1980s, the news of Eastern Bloc countries was covered.
After two years at EFE, in 1982 she was hired by El País to be the paper's new head correspondent in the Soviet Union, based in Moscow.
In the following fifteen years she remained in the same location, covering the emergence and rise of the Polish trade union Solidarity, the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification, the arrival of Mikhail Gorbachev to power in the Soviet Union, the 1991 coup d'état against him, Russia under Boris Yeltsin, and the fall of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe.
[1][3] Pilar Bonet is also an associate researcher and expert at the Spanish think tank Barcelona Centre for International Affairs,[3] and has been recognized for her journalistic work on multiple occasions.